Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Masachapa in Nicaragua

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/25 / 2025-05-28 09:14:39 / May 28, 2025 @ 9:14 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:14:39 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -87.1041° West, 11.5109° North, depth 35 km. Unique identifier: us6000qgdh. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000qgdh. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Carlos Fonseca Amador (c. 5 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carlos Fonseca Amador, San Rafael del Sur. Country/countries that might be effected, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-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 quakes 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: 71 km WSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-87.1041° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	11.5109° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 km WSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-28 09:14:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-28 09:30:13	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	326	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	74	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.051	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.89 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	175	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	us6000qgdh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qgdh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qgdh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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