A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Bluefields in Nicaragua. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -83.6655° West, 11.7021° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us2000fyng. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fyng. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 15:09:48 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 21:09:48 / July 6, 2018 @ 9:09 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nueva Guinea, Corn Island, Rama. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Nueva Guinea (c. 52 900 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Bluefields (c. 44 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rama (c. 20 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Corn Island (c. 8 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Laguna de Perlas (c. 6 800 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 36 km SSE of Bluefields, Nicaragua.
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