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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Masachapa in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -87.0826° West, 11.6776° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ammc. Unique identifier: us7000ammc. The temblor was picked up at 07:08:49 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/07/20 / 2020-07-13 07:08:49 / July 13, 2020 @ 7:08 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ticuantepe, La Concepción, Chichigalpa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Nagarote (c. 26 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 seven and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 63 km W of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.0826° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.6776° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	63 km W 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	2020-07-13 07:08:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-13 07:30:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	369	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	0.941	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 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	us7000ammc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ammc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ammc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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