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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Punta de Burica in Panama

Posted by admin on February 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 6.0796S, -82.618WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 217 km S of Punta de Burica, Panama (135 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/02/19 / 2019-02-11 15:17:34 / February 11, 2019 @ 3:17 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:17:34 / 9:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -82.618° West, latitude 6.0796° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000jgb1. Event ids that are associated: us2000jgb1. 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) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 217 km S of Punta de Burica, Panama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.618° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0796° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 217km S of Punta de Burica, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-11 15:17:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-11 15:33:03 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 2.697 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us2000jgb1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jgb1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jgb1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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