Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Boca Chica in Panama

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Boca Chica in Panama. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:30:18 / 7:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.3225 West, latitude 7.4844 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nqwx. Unique identifier: us7000nqwx. Global time and date of event 09/11/24 / 2024-11-09 19:30:18 / November 9, 2024 @ 7:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puerto Armuelles, Las Lomas, David. Nearby country/countries, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 82 km S of Boca Chica, Panama.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-82.3225° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	7.4844° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82 km S of Boca Chica, 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 19:30:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-09 19:49:18	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	4.691	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	518	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	80	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.988	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	135	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	us7000nqwx	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nqwx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nqwx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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