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Moderate earthquake 5.7 mag, 5 km SSE of Puerto Armuelles, Panama


Earthquake location 8.2328S, -82.8412WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Puerto Armuelles in Panama on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, -82.8412° West, 8.2328° North, depth 2.955 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:19:34 / 7:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/07/24 / 2024-07-22 19:19:34 / July 22, 2024 @ 7:19 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.955 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nejp. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nejp.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Boquete, Volcán, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Corredor (c. 7 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Golfito (c. 6 800 pop). Close country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 5 km SSE of Puerto Armuelles, Panama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.8412° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.2328° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.955 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km SSE 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 2024-07-22 19:19:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-22 19:38:56 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 500 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.889 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nejp Id of event.
Event Code 6000nejp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nejp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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