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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Corinto in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on December 17, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.7926S, -87.5836WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua on Monday. Unique identifier: us60006pbl. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006pbl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -87.5836 West, latitude 11.7926 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:47 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 03:20:47 / November 26, 2019 @ 3:20 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corinto (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 88 km SSW of Corinto, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.5836° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.7926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km SSW of Corinto, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-26 03:20:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-17 03:35:09 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 259 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 1.053 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us60006pbl Id of event.
Event Code 60006pbl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006pbl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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