Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Masachapa in Nicaragua

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua on Tuesday. 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nzqj. Unique identifier: us7000nzqj. Exact location of event, longitude -86.9866 West, latitude 11.2532 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 22:46:22 / December 17, 2024 @ 10:46 pm. The temblor was detected at 22:46:22 / 10:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carlos Fonseca Amador, San Rafael del Sur. Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Carlos Fonseca Amador (c. 5 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 78 km SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.9866° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.2532° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	78 km SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-12-17 22:46:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-19 03:19:51	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	312	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	61	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.147	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	191	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	us7000nzqj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nzqj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nzqj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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