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Light earthquake 4.8 mag, 135 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica


Earthquake location 10.5063S, -86.8844WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 135 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica (84 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us70007j0k. Unique identifier: us70007j0k. Exact location of event, longitude -86.8844 West, latitude 10.5063 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:36:44 / 6:36 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). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/02/20 / 2020-02-05 12:36:44 / February 5, 2020 @ 12:36 pm.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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: 135 km W of Sardinal, Costa Rica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.8844° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5063° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km 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 2020-02-05 12:36:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-05 12:52:44 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 354 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 1.366 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 141 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 us70007j0k Id of event.
Event Code 70007j0k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007j0k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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