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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Paquera in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on December 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.7897S, -84.7713WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Paquera in Costa Rica on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -84.7713° West, latitude 9.7897° North, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:33:30 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/20 / 2020-12-08 03:33:30 / December 8, 2020 @ 3:33 am. Id of earthquake: us7000cp27. Event ids that are associated: us7000cp27.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cartago, Tres Ríos, Concepción (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Vicente (c. 34 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from San Vicente de Moravia (c. 34 400 pop).

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

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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. 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: 18 km E of Paquera, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -84.7713° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.7897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18 km E of Paquera, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-08 03:33:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-08 04:07:24 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 2.7 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 0.528 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us7000cp27 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cp27 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cp27, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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