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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 15 km WSW of Puerto Armuelles, Panama

Posted by admin on January 29, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.2289S, -82.9922WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Puerto Armuelles in Panama. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -82.9922° West, 8.2289° North. The temblor was picked up at 13:23:26 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000dcxa. Event ids that are associated: us6000dcxa. Global time and date of event 29/01/21 / 2021-01-29 13:23:26 / January 29, 2021 @ 1:23 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boquete, Volcán, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Corredor (c. 7 100 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 15 km WSW of Puerto Armuelles, Panama.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.9922° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.2289° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km WSW of Puerto Armuelles, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-29 13:23:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-29 13:48:05 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 340 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 0.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us6000dcxa Id of event.
Event Code 6000dcxa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dcxa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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