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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Tamarindo in Costa Rica

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Earthquake location 10.5756S, -86.1089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Tamarindo in Costa Rica on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us7000nut3. Event ids that are associated: us7000nut3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/24 / 2024-11-28 18:24:18 / November 28, 2024 @ 6:24 pm. Exact location of event, depth 35.719 km, -86.1089° West, 10.5756° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.719 km (22 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:24:18 / 6:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Nicoya (c. 15 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Santa Cruz (c. 12 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nicoya, San Juan del Sur, Liberia (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop), Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixteen 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: 42 km NW of Tamarindo, Costa Rica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.1089° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.5756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.719 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42 km NW of Tamarindo, 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 2024-11-28 18:24:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-12 16:39:59 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 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.822 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us7000nut3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nut3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nut3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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