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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on April 12, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.6432S, -87.9252WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua. Exact location of event, longitude -87.9252 West, latitude 12.6432 North, depth = 63.87 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us700034t0. Unique identifier: us700034t0. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.87 km (40 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 23:12:34 / 11:12 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/04/19 / 2019-04-12 05:12:34 / April 12, 2019 @ 5:12 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael Oriente, El Tránsito, San Alejo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop), El Salvador (c. 6 052 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from La Unión (c. 26 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Rafael Oriente (c. 19 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from El Tránsito (c. 9 500 pop).

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 sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 52 km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.9252° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6432° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-12 05:12:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-12 05:55:08 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 298 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us700034t0 Id of event.
Event Code 700034t0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700034t0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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