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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Boca Chica in Panama


Earthquake location 7.7231S, -82.3344WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Boca Chica in Panama. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mqxx. Id of event: us7000mqxx. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:49:23 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.181 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/06/24 / 2024-06-07 13:49:23 / June 7, 2024 @ 1:49 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.3344 West, latitude 7.7231 North, depth = 9.181 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Concepción, Puerto Armuelles, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km SSW of Boca Chica, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.3344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.7231° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.181 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56 km SSW of Boca Chica, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-06-07 13:49:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-06-07 14:15:37 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 326 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.191 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mqxx Id of event.
Event Code 7000mqxx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mqxx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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