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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Corinto in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 12.2564S, -87.4932WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua. The epicenter was at a depth of 70.14 km (44 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 18:26:01 / September 11, 2018 @ 6:26 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:26:01 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -87.4932 West, latitude 12.2564 North, depth = 70.14 km. Id of earthquake: us2000hcy7. Event ids that are associated: us2000hcy7.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Paz Centro, Telica, Puerto Morazán (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from La Paz Centro (c. 23 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop). Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 42 km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.4932° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 70.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-11 18:26:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-06 16:28:35 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 298 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 0.615 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 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 us2000hcy7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000hcy7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hcy7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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