Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tola in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tola in Nicaragua on Wednesday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:26:17 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000pac0. Event ids that are associated: us7000pac0. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.5093 West, latitude 11.1381 North, depth = 54.478 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/25 / 2025-01-22 05:26:17 / January 22, 2025 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.478 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Marcos (c. 23 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Nandaime (c. 20 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Marcos, Jinotepe, Dolores (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 70 km WSW of Tola, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.5093° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.1381° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.478 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km WSW of Tola, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-22 05:26:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-20 14:28:09	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	271	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.037	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	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	us7000pac0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pac0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pac0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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