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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Canoas in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 8.6005S, -82.8449WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Canoas in Costa Rica. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.27 km (14 miles). Exact location of event, depth 23.27 km, -82.8449° West, 8.6005° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003lpg. Id of event: us20003lpg. The temblor was picked up at 21:05:15 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/09/15 / 2015-09-19 03:05:15 / September 19, 2015 @ 3:05 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Almirante, Buenos Aires, Las Lomas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km N of Canoas, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.8449° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.6005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Canoas, 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 2015-09-19 03:05:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-19 03:30:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 299 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 0.247 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us20003lpg Id of event.
Event Code 20003lpg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003lpg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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