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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Jaque in Panama


Earthquake location 7.5699S, -78.8323WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 73 km W of Jaque, Panama (45 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 09:55:32 / 9:55 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.29 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 3.29 km, -78.8323° West, 7.5699° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/02/18 / 2018-02-18 14:55:32 / February 18, 2018 @ 2:55 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d47c. Id of event: us2000d47c. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km W of Jaque, Panama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -78.8323° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.5699° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km W of Jaque, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-18 14:55:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 15:13:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 402 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 1.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us2000d47c Id of event.
Event Code 2000d47c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d47c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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