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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Costa Rica

Posted by admin on November 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 10.6272S, -86.024WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, off the coast of Costa Rica kilometers (0 miles) from Costa Rica. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 07:40:21 / November 21, 2018 @ 7:40 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000huth. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000huth. Exact location of event, longitude -86.024 West, latitude 10.6272 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:40:21 / 7:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Belén, Potosí, San Jorge (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Belén (c. 5 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: off the coast of Costa Rica. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.024° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.6272° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the coast of 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 2018-11-21 07:40:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-21 07:59:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 370 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 1.105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140 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 us1000huth Id of event.
Event Code 1000huth An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000huth, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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