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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Pacora in Panama

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Pacora in Panama. Exact location of earthquake, -79.0488° West, 8.7072° North, depth 23.47 km. The temblor was detected at 02:09:55 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us1000jfbt. Event ids that are associated: us1000jfbt. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.47 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/19 / 2019-03-14 07:09:55 / March 14, 2019 @ 7:09 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Coco, Guadalupe, La Chorrera (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Panamá (c. 408 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from San Miguelito (c. 321 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Tocumen (c. 88 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arraiján (c. 76 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Las Cumbres (c. 69 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from La Chorrera (c. 61 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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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: 48 km SSE of Pacora, Panama.

Arraiján El Coco Guadalupe La Chorrera Las Cumbres Pacora Panama San Miguelito Tocumen

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-79.0488° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	8.7072° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km SSE of Pacora, Panama	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-14 07:09:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-14 07:37:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	17	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.6	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	291	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	0.902	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	96	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	us1000jfbt	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jfbt	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jfbt,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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