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Strong earthquake 6.2 mag, 41 km NW of Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Posted by admin on October 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.5443S, -86.1249WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Tamarindo in Costa Rica. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nyau. Unique identifier: us6000nyau. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/10/24 / 2024-10-12 17:43:45 / October 12, 2024 @ 5:43 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 17:43:45 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -86.1249° West, latitude 10.5443° North, depth = 18.574 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.574 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 113 km (70 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San José, Cañas, Belén (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 135 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 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: 41 km NW of Tamarindo, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.1249° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.574 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41 km NW 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 2024-10-12 17:43:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-12 17:59:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.417 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 592 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 125 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us6000nyau Id of event.
Event Code 6000nyau An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nyau, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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