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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Masachapa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on May 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.4859S, -86.7298WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. Exact location of event, depth 48.5 km, -86.7298° West, 11.4859° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/20 / 2020-05-20 05:59:07 / May 20, 2020 @ 5:59 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 48.5 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70009le2. Event ids that are associated: us70009le2. The temblor was reported at 23:59:07 / 11:59 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Granada, San Juan del Sur, La Paz Centro. Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 89 km (55 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 40 km SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.7298° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.4859° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-20 05:59:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-20 08:21:34 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 326 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 0.769 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us70009le2 Id of event.
Event Code 70009le2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009le2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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