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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Masachapa in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on July 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 11.0887S, -86.8365WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Masachapa in Nicaragua. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -86.8365° West, 11.0887° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 20:55:20 / July 28, 2025 @ 8:55 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000qvrw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qvrw. The temblor was detected at 20:55:20 / 8:55 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Teresa, San Rafael del Sur. Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from San Rafael del Sur (c. 29 800 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Santa Teresa (c. 5 800 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 84 km SSW of Masachapa, Nicaragua.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.8365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km SSW 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 2025-07-28 20:55:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-28 21:10:36 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 385 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 1.201 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 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 us6000qvrw Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvrw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qvrw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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