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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 46 km ESE of Pedasi, Panama

Posted by admin on December 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 7.3238S, -79.6719WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Pedasi in Panama. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.6719 West, latitude 7.3238 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us60006nh1. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006nh1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 02:40:42 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/19 / 2019-12-07 07:40:42 / December 7, 2019 @ 7:40 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Tablas. The epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Las Tablas (c. 8 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 46 km ESE of Pedasi, Panama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.6719° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.3238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km ESE of Pedasi, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-07 07:40:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-07 07:55:20 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 369 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 1.838 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us60006nh1 Id of event.
Event Code 60006nh1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006nh1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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