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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 52 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua

Posted by admin on January 30, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.3733S, -87.7458WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:41:02 / 5:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -87.7458° West, latitude 12.3733° North, depth = 62.87 km. Global time and date of event 30/01/19 / 2019-01-30 11:41:02 / January 30, 2019 @ 11:41 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000is0e. Id of event: us1000is0e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.87 km (39 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was León, Posoltega, Puerto Morazán (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 95 km (59 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Puerto Morazán (c. 7 700 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Posoltega (c. 6 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. 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: 52 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.7458° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.3733° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-30 11:41:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-30 11:57:53 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 312 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 0.751 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us1000is0e Id of event.
Event Code 1000is0e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000is0e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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