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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Sardinal in Costa Rica


Earthquake location 10.5753S, -86.0831WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Sardinal in Costa Rica. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/06/19 / 2019-06-18 16:12:22 / June 18, 2019 @ 4:12 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us600042k3. Unique identifier: us600042k3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.0831 West, latitude 10.5753 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:12:22 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

The epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from San Jorge (c. 7 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Jorge, Rivas, Nicoya (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 48 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.0831° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km W of Sardinal, 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 2019-06-18 16:12:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-18 17:01:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 1.147 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us600042k3 Id of event.
Event Code 600042k3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600042k3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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