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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near León in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from León in Nicaragua. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/24 / 2024-10-07 04:38:15 / October 7, 2024 @ 4:38 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nx0g. Id of event: us6000nx0g. The temblor was detected at 04:38:15 / 4:38 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 180.913 km (112 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -86.8019 West, latitude 12.3446 North, depth = 180.913 km.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Teresa, Niquinohomo, Tisma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 13 km SE of León, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.8019° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.3446° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	180.913 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km SE of León, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-10-07 04:38:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-08 00:28:06	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	298	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.575	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	us6000nx0g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000nx0g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000nx0g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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