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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Punta de Burica in Panama

Posted by admin on October 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.9333S, -82.5587WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Punta de Burica in Panama on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -82.5587° West, 7.9333° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006246. Id of event: us60006246. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/10/19 / 2019-10-24 10:05:24 / October 24, 2019 @ 10:05 am. The temblor was detected at 04:05:24 / 4:05 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Corredor (c. 7 100 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Golfito, Boquete, Volcán. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km ESE of Punta de Burica, Panama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.5587° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.9333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35km ESE of Punta de Burica, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-10-24 10:05:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-24 10:20:37 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 312 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 0.864 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132 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 us60006246 Id of event.
Event Code 60006246 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006246, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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