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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Ciudad Cortes in Costa Rica

Posted by admin on May 14, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.429S, -83.767WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Ciudad Cortes in Costa Rica. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:37:42 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -83.767 West, latitude 8.429 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000e4ic. Event ids that are associated: us1000e4ic. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/18 / 2018-05-14 06:37:42 / May 14, 2018 @ 6:37 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Golfito (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Golfito (c. 6 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 64 km SSW of Ciudad Cortes, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.767° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km SSW of Ciudad Cortes, 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 2018-05-14 06:37:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-14 07:05:26 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 234 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 0.893 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000e4ic Id of event.
Event Code 1000e4ic An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e4ic, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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