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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Upala in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 10.7894S, -84.932WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Upala in Costa Rica on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/06/18 / 2018-06-19 14:41:34 / June 19, 2018 @ 2:41 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:41:34 / 8:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 170.79 km (106 miles). Exact location of event, depth 170.79 km, -84.932° West, 10.7894° North. Unique identifier: us1000eviu. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000eviu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Rafael, Río Segundo, Esparza (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Quesada (c. 27 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Chacarita (c. 26 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Rafael (c. 17 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 15 km SE of Upala, Costa Rica. This information 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 -84.932° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7894° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 170.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SE of Upala, 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 2018-06-19 14:41:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-19 16:55:40 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 0.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us1000eviu Id of event.
Event Code 1000eviu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eviu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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