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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag was detected near Burica in Panama


Earthquake location 7.4811S, -82.4229WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Burica in Panama. Exact location of event, longitude -82.4229 West, latitude 7.4811 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 10:03:40 / November 9, 2024 @ 10:03 am UTC/GMT. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:03:40 / 10:03 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nqv1. Event ids that are associated: us7000nqv1.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Las Lomas, David, Puerto Armuelles (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 78 km SE of Burica, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.4229° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.4811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78 km SE of Burica, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-09 10:03:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-09 10:23:23 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 4.252 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.948 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 144 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 us7000nqv1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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