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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Santa Teresa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on March 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.6101S, -86.2994WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Santa Teresa in Nicaragua. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.23 km (46 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000jl2y. Event ids that are associated: us1000jl2y. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/03/19 / 2019-03-24 03:22:35 / March 24, 2019 @ 3:22 am. Exact location of event, longitude -86.2994 West, latitude 11.6101 North, depth = 74.23 km. The temblor was detected at 21:22:35 / 9:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nagarote, Tipitapa, San Juan del Sur (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 17 km SSW of Santa Teresa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.2994° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.6101° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km SSW of Santa Teresa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-03-24 03:22:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-24 23:08:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 211 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 0.503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000jl2y Id of event.
Event Code 1000jl2y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000jl2y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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