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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Jacó in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Jacó in Costa Rica on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.88 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/20 / 2020-12-28 04:53:26 / December 28, 2020 @ 4:53 am UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:53:26 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d3ks. Id of event: us6000d3ks. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -84.6826° West, 9.4387° North, depth 5.88 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from San Vicente (c. 34 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Concepción, Tres Ríos, Purral. Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every 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 two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km SSW of Jacó, Costa Rica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.6826° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.4387° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSW of Jacó, 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	2020-12-28 04:53:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-28 05:12:21	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	271	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	0.732	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	190	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	us6000d3ks	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d3ks	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000d3ks,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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