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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near San Isidro in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 9.4096S, -83.9202WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from San Isidro in Costa Rica. 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 8.6 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:32:56 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 25/07/16 / 2016-07-25 00:32:56 / July 25, 2016 @ 12:32 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20006hbz. Unique identifier: us20006hbz. Exact location of earthquake, -83.9202° West, 9.4096° North, depth 8.6 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guácimo, Naranjo, Pocora (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km W of San Isidro, Costa Rica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.9202° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.4096° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km W of San Isidro, 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 2016-07-25 00:32:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-25 03:09:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 273 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 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us20006hbz Id of event.
Event Code 20006hbz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006hbz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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