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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Masachapa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on April 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.8396S, -87.0098WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:36:07 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us70003965. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003965. Exact location, longitude -87.0098° West, latitude 11.8396° North, depth = 52.52 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/04/19 / 2019-04-19 13:36:07 / April 19, 2019 @ 1:36 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 52.52 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Masaya, Niquinohomo, Nindirí (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 54 km W of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.0098° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.8396° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km W of Masachapa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-19 13:36:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-19 13:55:17 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 369 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 0.723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003965 Id of event.
Event Code 70003965 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003965, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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