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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 105 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua


Earthquake location 12.1443S, -88.2084WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 105 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua (65 miles) on Sunday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:56:14 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20003j5v. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003j5v. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.78 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/15 / 2015-09-13 14:56:14 / September 13, 2015 @ 2:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -88.2084° West, latitude 12.1443° North, depth = 33.78 km.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 105 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.2084° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1443° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-13 14:56:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 16:39:16 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 1.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us20003j5v Id of event.
Event Code 20003j5v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j5v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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