Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near San Marcos in Costa Rica

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from San Marcos in Costa Rica on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 53.54 km, -84.1099° West, 9.6163° North. Global time and date of event 01/06/24 / 2024-06-01 20:32:52 / June 1, 2024 @ 8:32 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000mpi9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mpi9. The temblor was detected at 20:32:52 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 53.54 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from San José (c. 335 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from San Francisco (c. 55 900 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Alajuela (c. 47 500 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Paraíso (c. 39 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from San Isidro (c. 34 900 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puntarenas, Miramar, Quesada.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 10 km WSW of San Marcos, Costa Rica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.1099° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	9.6163° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km WSW of San Marcos, 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	2024-06-01 20:32:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-06-06 02:27:00	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	259	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	140	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	us7000mpi9	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mpi9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mpi9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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