Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Sardinal in Costa Rica

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.82 km (28 miles). Unique identifier: us1000dys9. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000dys9. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:05:20 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). 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: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 12:05:20 / May 5, 2018 @ 12:05 pm. Exact location, longitude -86.0104° West, latitude 10.6801° North, depth = 45.82 km.

Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cañas, San José, Belén (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 43 km WNW of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.0104° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.6801° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km WNW of Sardinal, 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	2018-05-05 12:05:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-05 12:24:45	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	3.1	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	385	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	0.409	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	138	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000dys9	Id of event.
Event Code	1000dys9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000dys9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-86.0104° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

10.6801° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

45.82 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

43km WNW of Sardinal, 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

2018-05-05 12:05:20

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-05-05 12:24:45

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

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

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

385

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.409

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.11 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

138

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000dys9

Id of event.

Event Code

1000dys9

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000dys9,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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