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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 41 km SSE of Quepos, Costa Rica

Posted by admin on January 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.0883S, -83.9955WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Quepos in Costa Rica on Tuesday. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:25:36 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -83.9955° West, latitude 9.0883° North, depth = 17.77 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.77 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us60007c1u. Event ids that are associated: us60007c1u. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 11:25:36 / January 21, 2020 @ 11:25 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Josecito, San Rafael, Mercedes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Vicente de Moravia (c. 34 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from San Vicente (c. 34 400 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 41 km SSE of Quepos, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.9955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.0883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSE of Quepos, 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 2020-01-21 11:25:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 11:46:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 386 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 0.883 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.54 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 us60007c1u Id of event.
Event Code 60007c1u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007c1u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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