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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Corinto in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 11.9885S, -87.7443WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Corinto in Nicaragua on Saturday. Event id: us60005lv5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005lv5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:51:11 / 4:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -87.7443° West, 11.9885° North, depth 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/19 / 2019-09-21 22:51:11 / September 21, 2019 @ 10:51 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from El Realejo (c. 6 200 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was El Viejo, Chinandega, El Realejo. Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 82 km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -87.7443° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.9885° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km SW of Corinto, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-21 22:51:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-21 23:10:06 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 326 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 0.997 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 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 us60005lv5 Id of event.
Event Code 60005lv5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005lv5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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