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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Quepos in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on October 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0373S, -83.9991WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Quepos in Costa Rica. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/10/18 / 2018-10-09 01:48:07 / October 9, 2018 @ 1:48 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000h93j. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h93j. The temblor was reported at 19:48:07 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -83.9991° West, 9.0373° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan, San Vicente de Moravia, San Vicente (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Event epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from San Vicente de Moravia (c. 34 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from San Vicente (c. 34 400 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Purral (c. 30 000 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 46 km SSE of Quepos, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.9991° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSE of Quepos, 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 2018-10-09 01:48:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-09 02:07:34 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 369 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 0.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us1000h93j Id of event.
Event Code 1000h93j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h93j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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