Strong earthquake, 6.5 mag was detected near Jaco in Costa Rica

A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Jaco in Costa Rica. All ids that are associated to the event: at00ozc47b, pt17317000, us2000bmhe. Unique identifier: us2000bmhe. A tsunami warning has been issued near Jaco in Costa Rica (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:28:24 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -84.5054° West, latitude 9.5264° North, depth = 19.79 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.79 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/11/17 / 2017-11-13 02:28:24 / November 13, 2017 @ 2:28 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Curridabat (c. 34 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Vicente de Moravia (c. 34 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from San Vicente (c. 34 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Siquirres, Nicoya, Pocora (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km SE of Jaco, Costa Rica.

Alajuela Costa Rica Curridabat Jaco Nicoya Paraíso Pocora Puntarenas San Francisco San Isidro San Jose San Vicente San Vicente de Moravia Siquirres

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.5054° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.5264° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km SE of Jaco, 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	2017-11-13 02:28:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-13 02:52:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	195	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.47	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	1	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	769	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	,at,pt,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	0.203	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000bmhe	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bmhe	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00ozc47b,pt17317000,us2000bmhe,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-84.5054° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

9.5264° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

19.79 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

16km SE of Jaco, 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

2017-11-13 02:28:24

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-11-13 02:52:12

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-360

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

195

The total number of felt reports

CDI

6.1

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.47

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

769

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

,at,pt,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

0.203

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

Root Mean Square

1.13 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

132

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

Magnitude Type

mww

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us2000bmhe

Id of event.

Event Code

2000bmhe

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

Event IDS

,at00ozc47b,pt17317000,us2000bmhe,

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

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