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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 90 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua


Earthquake location 10.8379S, -86.5793WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. Unique identifier: us7000nvkf. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nvkf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -86.5793° West, 10.8379° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/24 / 2024-12-03 07:13:45 / December 3, 2024 @ 7:13 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:13:45 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan del Sur (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from San Juan del Sur (c. 7 800 pop). Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.5793° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.8379° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 km WSW of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-03 07:13:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-02 06:14:58 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 284 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us7000nvkf Id of event.
Event Code 7000nvkf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nvkf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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