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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 10.7781S, -86.3224WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cehq. Unique identifier: us7000cehq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -86.3224 West, latitude 10.7781 North, depth = 31.89 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:10:18 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/11/20 / 2020-11-10 20:10:18 / November 10, 2020 @ 8:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.89 km (20 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Belén (c. 5 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Potosí (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Potosí, San Jorge, Belén (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 72 km SW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.3224° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km SW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-10 20:10:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-09 22:07:28 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 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us7000cehq Id of event.
Event Code 7000cehq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cehq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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