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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Masachapa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on December 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.1312S, -86.8488WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:17:23 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.8488 West, latitude 11.1312 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/12/18 / 2018-12-22 05:17:23 / December 22, 2018 @ 5:17 am. Id of earthquake: us2000iw76. Event ids that are associated: us2000iw76. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Teresa, San Rafael del Sur (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Santa Teresa (c. 5 800 pop).

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

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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: 81 km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.8488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.1312° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-22 05:17:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-22 06:54:38 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 354 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 1.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 158 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 us2000iw76 Id of event.
Event Code 2000iw76 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iw76, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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