Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Costa Rica

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, off the coast of Costa Rica kilometers (0 miles) from Costa Rica. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 08:24:36 / November 21, 2018 @ 8:24 am. The temblor was picked up at 08:24:36 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hutu. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hutu. Exact location of event, longitude -86.1861 West, latitude 10.4803 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan del Sur, Nicoya, Liberia. Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: off the coast of Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.1861° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.4803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	off the coast of 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	2018-11-21 08:24:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-21 08:55:40	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	1.228	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	167	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	us1000hutu	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hutu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hutu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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