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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Tamarindo in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 10.6027S, -86.4385WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Tamarindo in Costa Rica on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.4385 West, latitude 10.6027 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:07:18 / 4:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/08/24 / 2024-08-25 16:07:18 / August 25, 2024 @ 4:07 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000n9c6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000n9c6.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Cruz, San Juan del Sur. Epicenter of the earthquake was 101 km (63 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km WNW of Tamarindo, Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.4385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6027° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km WNW of Tamarindo, 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 2024-08-25 16:07:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-25 16:22:26 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.124 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us7000n9c6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000n9c6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n9c6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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