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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near La Paz Centro in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from La Paz Centro in Nicaragua on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 148.47 km, -86.7634° West, 12.3765° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 148.47 km (92 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:29:34 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000deqg. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000deqg. Global time and date of event 05/02/21 / 2021-02-05 12:29:34 / February 5, 2021 @ 12:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Granada, Diriomo, Santa Teresa. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Event epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 10 km WNW of La Paz Centro, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.7634° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.3765° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	148.47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km WNW of La Paz Centro, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-02-05 12:29:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-05 13:00:55	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	354	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	0.24	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	131	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	us6000deqg	Id of event.
Event Code	6000deqg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000deqg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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