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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Carlos Fonseca Amador in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on September 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.011S, -86.7012WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Carlos Fonseca Amador in Nicaragua. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/09/17 / 2017-09-02 22:10:16 / September 2, 2017 @ 10:10 pm. The temblor was reported at 16:10:16 / 4:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.7012 West, latitude 12.011 North, depth = 82.49 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 82.49 km (51 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000aejq. Event ids that are associated: us2000aejq.

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Sauce, El Viejo, Chinandega (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 21 km W of Carlos Fonseca Amador, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.7012° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.011° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km W of Carlos Fonseca Amador, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-02 22:10:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-02 22:36:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 340 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 0.445 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us2000aejq Id of event.
Event Code 2000aejq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aejq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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