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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.8038S, -88.3664WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 144 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua (89 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70008lfz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008lfz. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/04/20 / 2020-04-02 10:15:41 / April 2, 2020 @ 10:15 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49.31 km (31 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -88.3664° West, 11.8038° North, depth 49.31 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:41 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 144 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.3664° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.8038° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 144km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-02 10:15:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-02 10:29:33 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 416 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 1.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us70008lfz Id of event.
Event Code 70008lfz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008lfz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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