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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Belén in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Belén in Nicaragua. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 163.008 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/09/24 / 2024-09-12 21:07:06 / September 12, 2024 @ 9:07 pm. The temblor was picked up at 21:07:06 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000ndd6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000ndd6. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -85.9199 West, latitude 11.6268 North, depth = 163.008 km.

Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Juigalpa (c. 54 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Ayote, Acoyapa, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 14 km NNW of Belén, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-85.9199° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.6268° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	163.008 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	14 km NNW of Belén, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-12 21:07:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-13 01:28:16	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	284	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.61	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us7000ndd6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ndd6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ndd6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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