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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 7 km WNW of Golfito, Costa Rica


Earthquake location 8.6586S, -83.2306WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Golfito in Costa Rica. Unique identifier: us1000gf9u. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000gf9u. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:28:59 / 4:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/08/18 / 2018-08-22 10:28:59 / August 22, 2018 @ 10:28 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -83.2306° West, 8.6586° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Las Lomas, Pedregal (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km WNW of Golfito, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.2306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.6586° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km WNW of Golfito, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-22 10:28:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-22 13:08:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 159 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000gf9u Id of event.
Event Code 1000gf9u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gf9u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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