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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, south of Panama


Earthquake location 7.9931S, -82.3988WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported south of Panama kilometers (0 miles) from Panama on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cn36. Id of event: us7000cn36. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/12/20 / 2020-12-02 19:57:20 / December 2, 2020 @ 7:57 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:57:20 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.74 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 3.74 km, -82.3988° West, 7.9931° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Volcán, Boquete, La Concepción (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: south of Panama. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.3988° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.9931° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-02 19:57:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-22 13:50:56 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 284 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 0.845 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 us7000cn36 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cn36 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cn36, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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