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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Somotillo in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on June 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.9193S, -86.852WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Somotillo in Nicaragua. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us200065zz. Unique identifier: us200065zz. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:50:41 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -86.852 West, latitude 12.9193 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/06/16 / 2016-06-16 22:50:41 / June 16, 2016 @ 10:50 pm.

The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Jinotega (c. 51 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Jinotega, Ocotal, San Rafael del Norte (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days twenty-four 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 quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 14 km SSE of Somotillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.852° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.9193° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km SSE of Somotillo, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-16 22:50:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-27 23:48:11 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 0.294 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us200065zz Id of event.
Event Code 200065zz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065zz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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