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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on April 29, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.2842S, -87.7846WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua. Global time and date of event 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 23:05:18 / April 29, 2019 @ 11:05 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -87.7846 West, latitude 12.2842 North, depth = 23.34 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:05:18 / 5:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.34 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70003eca. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003eca.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Posoltega, Puerto Morazán, Chichigalpa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Puerto Morazán (c. 7 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Posoltega (c. 6 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 62 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.7846° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2842° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km SW 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 2019-04-29 23:05:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 23:40:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 0.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 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 us70003eca Id of event.
Event Code 70003eca An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003eca, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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