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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Quepos in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on February 13, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0408S, -84.1091WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Quepos in Costa Rica on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.46 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jh44. Id of event: us2000jh44. Exact location, longitude -84.1091° West, latitude 9.0408° North, depth = 34.46 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:23:32 / 1:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/02/19 / 2019-02-13 07:23:32 / February 13, 2019 @ 7:23 am UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Miguel (c. 28 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Rafael Abajo (c. 27 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Cartago (c. 26 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Aserrí (c. 25 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Felipe (c. 25 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Diego, San Felipe, Alajuelita (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. 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: 42 km S of Quepos, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.1091° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0408° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km S of Quepos, 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 2019-02-13 07:23:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-13 07:45:05 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 0.955 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us2000jh44 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jh44 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jh44, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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