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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Puerto Limon in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on September 18, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.7854S, -82.8431WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Puerto Limon in Costa Rica on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -82.8431° West, latitude 9.7854° North, depth = 16.46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.46 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/09/19 / 2019-09-18 04:58:53 / September 18, 2019 @ 4:58 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:58:53 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70005hrz. Event ids that are associated: us70005hrz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 31 km (19 miles) from Limón (c. 63 100 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Turrialba (c. 29 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Changuinola (c. 22 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Siquirres (c. 18 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bocas del Toro (c. 13 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Almirante (c. 8 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mercedes, Pocora, Turrialba (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 31 km SE of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.8431° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km SE of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-18 04:58:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-18 05:16:44 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 354 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 0.302 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us70005hrz Id of event.
Event Code 70005hrz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005hrz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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