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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Posoltega in Nicaragua


Earthquake location 12.6216S, -86.9318WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Posoltega in Nicaragua. Id of earthquake: us60007gds. Event ids that are associated: us60007gds. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 181.71 km (113 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:42:38 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -86.9318 West, latitude 12.6216 North, depth = 181.71 km. Global time and date of event 26/01/20 / 2020-01-26 09:42:38 / January 26, 2020 @ 9:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Managua, San Marcos de Colón, Ciudad Darío (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ciudad Choluteca (c. 75 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 9 km NNE of Posoltega, Nicaragua. This information 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 -86.9318° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.6216° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 181.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NNE of Posoltega, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-26 09:42:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-26 09:56:00 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 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 0.099 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 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 us60007gds Id of event.
Event Code 60007gds An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007gds, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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