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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Pedasi in Panama


Earthquake location 7.32S, -79.9656WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Pedasi in Panama. Exact location, longitude -79.9656° West, latitude 7.32° North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us2000hfwa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hfwa. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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: 17/09/18 / 2018-09-17 15:33:53 / September 17, 2018 @ 3:33 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:33:53 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Chitré, Los Santos, Las Tablas (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Chitré (c. 44 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Las Tablas (c. 8 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Los Santos (c. 6 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

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 nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SSE of Pedasi, Panama. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -79.9656° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 7.32° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSE of Pedasi, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-17 15:33:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-17 16:26:20 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 284 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 1.839 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 us2000hfwa Id of event.
Event Code 2000hfwa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hfwa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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