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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near San Felix in Panama


Earthquake location 7.8492S, -82.0289WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from San Felix in Panama on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/08/16 / 2016-08-17 16:22:04 / August 17, 2016 @ 4:22 pm. The temblor was picked up at 11:22:04 / 11:22 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006egr. Unique identifier: us10006egr. Exact location of event, depth 3.55 km, -82.0289° West, 7.8492° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.55 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Soná (c. 7 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was La Concepción, Soná, David. Country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 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 two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km SSW of San Felix, Panama. 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 -82.0289° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.8492° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km SSW of San Felix, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-17 16:22:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-17 22:29:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 358 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 1.102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006egr Id of event.
Event Code 10006egr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006egr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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