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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Masachapa in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.6852S, -87.3097WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. Unique identifier: us10006k94. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006k94. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.49 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/09/16 / 2016-09-04 05:14:58 / September 4, 2016 @ 5:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -87.3097° West, 11.6852° North, depth 20.49 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:14:58 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Carlos Fonseca Amador (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlos Fonseca Amador, Corinto (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 87 km W of Masachapa, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.3097° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.6852° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km W of Masachapa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-04 05:14:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-04 05:56:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1.006 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 165 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 us10006k94 Id of event.
Event Code 10006k94 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006k94, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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