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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Cambutal in Panama


Earthquake location 6.0939S, -79.9699WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 141 km SSE of Cambutal, Panama (88 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 02/09/20 / 2020-09-02 21:09:23 / September 2, 2020 @ 9:09 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:09:23 / 9:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -79.9699 West, latitude 6.0939 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us7000bgv9. Event ids that are associated: us7000bgv9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 141 km SSE of Cambutal, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.9699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.0939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141 km SSE of Cambutal, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-02 21:09:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-02 23:11:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 433 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 3.055 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 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 us7000bgv9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bgv9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bgv9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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