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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Finca Blanco Numero Uno in Panama


Earthquake location 8.4307S, -82.8882WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Finca Blanco Numero Uno in Panama on Thursday. Global time and date of event 27/06/19 / 2019-06-27 13:36:17 / June 27, 2019 @ 1:36 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 29.5 km, -82.8882° West, 8.4307° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.5 km (18 miles). Id of earthquake: us700045wq. Event ids that are associated: us700045wq. The temblor was detected at 08:36:17 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 50 km (31 miles) from David (c. 82 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Puerto Armuelles (c. 18 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from La Concepción (c. 16 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Pedregal (c. 16 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Las Lomas (c. 11 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Buenos Aires (c. 11 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Volcán (c. 11 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Panama (c. 3 411 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Buenos Aires, Boquete, Las Lomas.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km NNW of Finca Blanco Numero Uno, Panama. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -82.8882° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.4307° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Finca Blanco Numero Uno, Panama Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-27 13:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-25 21:23:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 312 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 0.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us700045wq Id of event.
Event Code 700045wq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700045wq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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