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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Sardinal in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on October 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.5666S, -86.1396WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -86.1396° West, 10.5666° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000hflp. Event ids that are associated: us1000hflp. The temblor was picked up at 08:12:38 / 8:12 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 14:12:38 / October 22, 2018 @ 2:12 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nicoya, San Juan del Sur, Liberia (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 54 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.1396° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km W of Sardinal, 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 2018-10-22 14:12:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 14:34:27 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 1.199 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us1000hflp Id of event.
Event Code 1000hflp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hflp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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