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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Moyogalpa in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.4807S, -85.7098WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Moyogalpa in Nicaragua on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -85.7098° West, 11.4807° North, depth 199.88 km. The temblor was detected at 16:20:08 / 4:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/19 / 2019-07-03 22:20:08 / July 3, 2019 @ 10:20 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 199.88 km (124 miles). Id of earthquake: us70004iym. Event ids that are associated: us70004iym.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Juigalpa (c. 54 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Diriamba (c. 35 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was El Ayote, Tipitapa, San Rafael del Sur (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km S of Moyogalpa, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.7098° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.4807° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 199.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km S of Moyogalpa, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-03 22:20:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-14 04:51:31 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 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 0.714 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us70004iym Id of event.
Event Code 70004iym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004iym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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