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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Corinto in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.8799S, -87.6586WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua. Exact location, longitude -87.6586° West, latitude 11.8799° North, depth = 38.31 km. The temblor was detected at 14:29:13 / 2:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000dcmj. Id of event: us1000dcmj. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38.31 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 02/04/18 / 2018-04-02 20:29:13 / April 2, 2018 @ 8:29 pm UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Realejo, Corinto. Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from El Realejo (c. 6 200 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 84 km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.6586° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.8799° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-02 20:29:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-02 23:11:13 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 312 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 0.75 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 us1000dcmj Id of event.
Event Code 1000dcmj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dcmj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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