Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Sardinal in Costa Rica

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 09:47:11 / March 12, 2019 @ 9:47 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:47:11 / 3:47 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -85.9754 West, latitude 10.7045 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000je2c. Unique identifier: us1000je2c. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San José, Belén, Potosí.

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

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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: 41 km WNW of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-85.9754° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.7045° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km WNW of Sardinal, 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	2019-03-12 09:47:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-12 10:14:40	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	326	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	1.086	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	134	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000je2c	Id of event.
Event Code	1000je2c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000je2c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.6 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-85.9754° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

10.7045° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

41km WNW of Sardinal, 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

2019-03-12 09:47:11

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2019-03-12 10:14:40

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

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

326

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.086

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.34 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

134

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mwr

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000je2c

Id of event.

Event Code

1000je2c

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000je2c,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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