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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 10.7018S, -86.4078WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. Id of earthquake: us2000apeu. Event ids that are associated: us2000apeu. Exact location of event, longitude -86.4078 West, latitude 10.7018 North, depth = 35.32 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/09/17 / 2017-09-17 05:24:58 / September 17, 2017 @ 5:24 am. The temblor was detected at 23:24:58 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.32 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Juan del Sur. Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 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 twenty 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 84 km SW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.4078° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SW 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 2017-09-17 05:24:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-17 05:51:03 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 0.992 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us2000apeu Id of event.
Event Code 2000apeu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000apeu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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