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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Masachapa in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 52.6 km, -86.8102° West, 11.5083° North. The temblor was detected at 18:22:10 / 6:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.6 km (33 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/25 / 2025-01-31 18:22:10 / January 31, 2025 @ 6:22 pm. Event id: us7000pafh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pafh.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Paz Centro, Masaya, Nindirí (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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 44 km SW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.8102° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.5083° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 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	2025-01-31 18:22:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-31 19:29:38	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	72	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.841	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	186	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	us7000pafh	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pafh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pafh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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