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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Pedregal in Panama

Posted by admin on May 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.7412S, -82.2903WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Pedregal in Panama on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 22.98 km (14 miles). Unique identifier: us70003ht9. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003ht9. Exact location of event, longitude -82.2903 West, latitude 7.7412 North, depth = 22.98 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:30:22 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/05/19 / 2019-05-07 00:30:22 / May 7, 2019 @ 12:30 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop). Close country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Concepción, Puerto Armuelles, Las Lomas (min 5000 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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: 70 km SSE of Pedregal, Panama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.2903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7412° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km SSE of Pedregal, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-07 00:30:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-07 01:04:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 1.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 us70003ht9 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ht9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ht9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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