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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near El Rosario in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on July 24, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.2158S, -86.4675WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 62 kilometers (39 miles) from El Rosario in Nicaragua on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.4675 West, latitude 11.2158 North, depth = 54.21 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/07/15 / 2015-07-24 20:30:23 / July 24, 2015 @ 8:30 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.21 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20002zz4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002zz4. The temblor was picked up at 14:30:23 / 2:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Marcos (c. 23 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Masatepe (c. 21 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Crucero, Nandasmo, Niquinohomo (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km S of El Rosario, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.4675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.2158° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.21 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km S of El Rosario, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-24 20:30:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-24 21:51:19 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 259 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 0.842 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 160 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002zz4 Id of event.
Event Code 20002zz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002zz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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