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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 76 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.0092S, -86.5253WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 76 kilometers (47 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. Exact location of event, longitude -86.5253 West, latitude 11.0092 North, depth = 33.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/16 / 2016-08-04 05:57:02 / August 4, 2016 @ 5:57 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.73 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:57:02 / 11:57 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us100069zr. Event ids that are associated: us100069zr.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dolores, Jinotepe, Diriamba. Epicenter of the earthquake was 99 km (62 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Jinotepe (c. 29 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Nandaime (c. 20 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

Questions or comments?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 76 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.5253° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0092° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 76km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-04 05:57:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-04 06:14:35 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 354 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 0.959 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 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 us100069zr Id of event.
Event Code 100069zr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069zr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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