Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Posoltega in Nicaragua

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Posoltega in Nicaragua. Id of earthquake: us60007gds. Event ids that are associated: us60007gds. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 181.71 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:42:38 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -86.9318 West, latitude 12.6216 North, depth = 181.71 km. Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 09:42:38 / January 26, 2020 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Managua, San Marcos de Colón, Ciudad Darío (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km NNE of Posoltega, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.9318° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.6216° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	181.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NNE of Posoltega, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-26 09:42:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-26 09:56:00	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	0.099	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	144	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	us60007gds	Id of event.
Event Code	60007gds	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007gds,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-86.9318° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.6216° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

181.71 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

9km NNE of Posoltega, Nicaragua

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-01-26 09:42:38

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-01-26 09:56:00

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

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

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

0.099

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.45 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

144

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us60007gds

Id of event.

Event Code

60007gds

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us60007gds,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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