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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Pocosol in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on November 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.28S, -84.6703WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Pocosol in Costa Rica on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -84.6703 West, latitude 10.28 North, depth = 77.86 km. Event id: us70006clb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006clb. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77.86 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:33:40 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/11/19 / 2019-11-25 01:33:40 / November 25, 2019 @ 1:33 am.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraíso, Santa Cruz, Cot.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSW of Pocosol, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.6703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.28° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW of Pocosol, 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 2019-11-25 01:33:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-25 01:49:20 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.5 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 390 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 0.114 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us70006clb Id of event.
Event Code 70006clb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006clb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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