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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Chichigalpa in Nicaragua

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Earthquake location 12.6997S, -87.0016WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Chichigalpa in Nicaragua. Id of earthquake: us20005dfw. Event ids that are associated: us20005dfw. Exact location, longitude -87.0016° West, latitude 12.6997° North, depth = 170.91 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 170.91 km (106 miles). Global time and date of event 25/03/16 / 2016-03-25 21:43:37 / March 25, 2016 @ 9:43 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:43:37 / 3:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Lorenzo, Ciudad Sandino, San Marcos de Colón (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 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 nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 13 km NNE of Chichigalpa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.0016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6997° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 170.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNE of Chichigalpa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-03-25 21:43:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-04 05:11:33 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 298 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 0.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 101 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 us20005dfw Id of event.
Event Code 20005dfw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005dfw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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