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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 42 km WNW of Sardinal, Costa Rica


Earthquake location 10.6238S, -86.0224WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (mg/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. The temblor was reported at 06:49:59 / 6:49 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 39.8 km (25 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-15 12:49:59 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -86.0224 West, latitude 10.6238 North, depth 39.8 km.

Close countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jorge, Rivas, Nicoya.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.0224° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6238° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km WNW of Sardinal, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-15 00:49:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-15 01:19:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.103 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 177 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 usb000tpfr Id of event.
Event Code b000tpfr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usb000tpfr A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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