Magnitude 5.8 - NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA

Just saw this pop up


earthquake.usgs.gov...

quakes.globalincidentmap.com...


Magnitude 5.8
Date-Time

* Sunday, July 03, 2011 at 06:34:40 UTC
* Sunday, July 03, 2011 at 12:34:40 AM at epicenter
* Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 12.475°N, 87.587°W
Depth 64.7 km (40.2 miles)
Region NEAR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA
Distances 50 km (31 miles) WSW of Chinandega, Nicaragua
77 km (47 miles) W of Leon, Nicaragua
148 km (91 miles) WNW of MANAGUA, Nicaragua
1457 km (905 miles) ESE of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14.9 km (9.3 miles); depth +/- 7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Parameters NST=426, Nph=462, Dmin=178.1 km, Rmss=1.01 sec, Gp= 94°,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7
Source

* USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID usc0004mjq

At the risk of sounding like a douche... So what?

There's EQs of that magnitude every say. Its pretty common.
Yet there's always someone on here reporting it like its a big event from a top secret source that no one else could know about.

reply to post by Fishticon84


My thoughts exactly. Who cares? Earthquakes happen all the time, all over the world. I don't understand why ATS gets so excited.

Be nice now, alot of people find these sites on the web for the first time and think they are all of a sudden a super geologist and want to share their insight with the rest of the members here.

I imagine the predictions will start coming shortly of the "Big One" coming soon.

reply to post by kro32


Yeah thats true. I guess they feel its a good way to get a pinky toe in the door.

"The big one" lol. There's always gonna be a big one coming soon. Just like how there's always going to be something aligned with planet earth.

Call me when it hits 7.0 (or high 6.x if it's right under a populated area).

5.8 is just normal Earth movements that happen everyday, all the time, somewhere in the world.

Not a big deal....

However, if you notice an earthquake that registers higher than 7.5 then I would like to know about it, depending on the location. Anything over eight I would like to know about ASAP regardless of location.
Any eqs below 6 on the r scale I don't need to hear about unless abnormally damaging.

Originally posted by DarkSarcasm
Not a big deal....

However, if you notice an earthquake that registers higher than 7.5 then I would like to know about it, depending on the location. Anything over eight I would like to know about ASAP regardless of location.
Any eqs below 6 on the r scale I don't need to hear about unless abnormally damaging.

You know they don't use the Richter Scale anymore don't you?

Went away quite awhile ago.

yes the pacific ring of fire is and has been shaking alot, no conspiracy there.

now why is it shaking massively everywhere along the ring except the north american coastline, now that may prove to be a trick question.