Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Villa El Carmen in Nicaragua

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Villa El Carmen in Nicaragua. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cqja. Unique identifier: us7000cqja. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/12/20 / 2020-12-12 10:34:56 / December 12, 2020 @ 10:34 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:34:56 / 10:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -86.4742 West, latitude 12.0946 North, depth = 162.59 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 162.59 km (101 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Granada (c. 89 400 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ciudad Sandino (c. 70 000 pop). Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Potosí, San Lorenzo, Chinandega.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-86.4742° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.0946° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	162.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NNE of Villa El Carmen, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-12-12 10:34:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-12 10:51:50	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	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	0.227	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	147	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	us7000cqja	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cqja	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000cqja,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-86.4742° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

12.0946° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

162.59 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

13 km NNE of Villa El Carmen, Nicaragua

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-12-12 10:34:56

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-12-12 10:51:50

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

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

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

0.227

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.44 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

147

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000cqja

Id of event.

Event Code

7000cqja

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000cqja,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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