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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near San Felix in Panama


Earthquake location 7.6245S, -82.1982WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from San Felix in Panama. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -82.1982 West, latitude 7.6245 North, depth = 13.71 km. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:21:12 / 5:21 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.71 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us1000gjcx. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000gjcx. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/18 / 2018-08-29 10:21:12 / August 29, 2018 @ 10:21 am.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Pedregal (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (54 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 81 km SSW of San Felix, Panama.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.1982° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.6245° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSW of San Felix, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-29 10:21:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-29 10:48:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 246 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 1.259 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 us1000gjcx Id of event.
Event Code 1000gjcx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000gjcx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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