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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Golfito in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 8.7301S, -83.2474WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Golfito in Costa Rica. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -83.2474° West, 8.7301° North. Id of earthquake: us1000hpmp. Event ids that are associated: us1000hpmp. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/11/18 / 2018-11-09 09:20:31 / November 9, 2018 @ 9:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:20:31 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Lomas, Pedregal, David (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 13 km NW of Golfito, Costa Rica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -83.2474° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.7301° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NW of Golfito, 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 2018-11-09 09:20:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-09 09:48:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 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 436 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 0.325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000hpmp Id of event.
Event Code 1000hpmp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hpmp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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