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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Ciudad Sandino in Nicaragua

Posted by admin on November 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 12.1277S, -86.4514WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Ciudad Sandino in Nicaragua. Exact location, longitude -86.4514° West, latitude 12.1277° North, depth = 128.024 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:23:03 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rnrz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rnrz. Global time and date of event 17/11/25 / 2025-11-17 17:23:03 / November 17, 2025 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 128.024 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Estelí, Camoapa, Matagalpa. Close country/countries, Nicaragua (c. 5 996 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Managua (c. 973 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from León (c. 144 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Masaya (c. 130 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Tipitapa (c. 127 200 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Chinandega (c. 126 400 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Matagalpa (c. 109 100 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Estelí (c. 96 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km WSW of Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -86.4514° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.1277° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.024 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km WSW of Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-17 17:23:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-17 17:40:15 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 432 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.793 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rnrz Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnrz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnrz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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