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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Costa Rica


Earthquake location 10.7806S, -86.3806WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes off the coast of Costa Rica kilometers (0 miles) from Costa Rica on Wednesday. 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 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -86.3806 West, latitude 10.7806 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:40:03 / 6:40 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70008wz4. Event ids that are associated: us70008wz4. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/04/20 / 2020-04-15 18:40:03 / April 15, 2020 @ 6:40 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rivas, San Juan del Sur (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Rivas (c. 30 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop).

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 thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: off the coast of Costa Rica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.3806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.7806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place off the coast of 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 2020-04-15 18:40:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-15 20:31:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 170 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 us70008wz4 Id of event.
Event Code 70008wz4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008wz4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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