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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 4 km E of Potrerillos Abajo, Panama


Earthquake location 8.6537S, -82.446WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Potrerillos Abajo in Panama on Wednesday. Event id: us2000i4xn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i4xn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/18 / 2018-10-31 19:47:23 / October 31, 2018 @ 7:47 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -82.446° West, 8.6537° North, depth 10 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:47:23 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Bocas del Toro (c. 13 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bocas del Toro, Golfito, Almirante.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km E of Potrerillos Abajo, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.446° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.6537° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km E of Potrerillos Abajo, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-31 19:47:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-31 21:47:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 188 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 0.276 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000i4xn Id of event.
Event Code 2000i4xn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i4xn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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