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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 77 km SW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

Posted by admin on March 8, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.7322S, -86.3495WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000jpk0. Event ids that are associated: us2000jpk0. The temblor was picked up at 18:32:11 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 20.49 km (13 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 00:32:11 / February 16, 2019 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -86.3495° West, 10.7322° North, depth 20.49 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan del Sur (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 77 km SW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.3495° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km SW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-16 00:32:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-08 05:27:59 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 284 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 1.377 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us2000jpk0 Id of event.
Event Code 2000jpk0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jpk0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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