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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Jiquilillo in Nicaragua. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/25 / 2025-01-11 09:51:24 / January 11, 2025 @ 9:51 am UTC/GMT. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:51:24 / 9:51 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000pjep. Event ids that are associated: us6000pjep. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -87.7039 West, latitude 12.4456 North, depth = 73.029 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 73.029 km (45 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Telica, Monjarás, León. Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from El Viejo (c. 53 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Chichigalpa (c. 33 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Corinto (c. 19 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Telica (c. 8 800 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 43 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.7039° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	12.4456° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	73.029 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43 km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-11 09:51:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-12 08:24:05	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	271	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	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.183	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	198	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	us6000pjep	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pjep	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pjep,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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