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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 4 km W of San Isidro, Costa Rica

Posted by admin on April 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 9.3751S, -83.742WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from San Isidro in Costa Rica on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us2000e1xf. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000e1xf. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/04/18 / 2018-04-17 21:33:24 / April 17, 2018 @ 9:33 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -83.742 West, latitude 9.3751 North, depth = 9.08 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:33:24 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.08 km (6 miles).

Close country/countries, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Antonio, Llorente, Mercedes.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km W of San Isidro, Costa Rica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.742° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 9.3751° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km W of San Isidro, Costa Rica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-04-17 21:33:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-18 00:47:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 178 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 0.064 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 131 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000e1xf Id of event.
Event Code 2000e1xf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000e1xf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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