Another Earthquake
SOURCE
The blue dot is where I live.
Another day I woke up at nearly 9:00 am, I am having a hard time sleeping I usually fall asleep around 3:00 am. Well as it was a Sunday I got up and went out immediately, buying something for breakfast with my respective Coca Cola. Then I headed for the old wharf area and its park, there wasn't too much activity, apparently most of the regulars had a hang over and didn't show up.
Well after a few minutes a friend of mine went by in his car and told me to hop on, he went straight for a casino and as I was with him I went in. Well he gave me about five dollars to play with, they lasted me a long time on a video poker machine but of course eventually I lost. My friend in the mean time was losing over $200.00 and I told him if we shouldn't go, but he told me he wasn't leaving until he was broke so I left him there.
I walked back home and settled in for the afternoon, we had five local league football games so I was able to watch three of these games, lousy games really but at least my team won 3-0 and is the leader. Well that took care of the afternoon and part of the evening, for the rest I am reading an online book so I was doing that when all of a sudden I heard a very strong noise and I felt the floor shaking, an earthquake of course, it really scared the crap out of me. This was around 9:30 pm.
I looked on the internet a few minutes later and all I could find was from Ineter, the Nicaraguan Seismic Agency and they had it pinpointed at 5.2 Richter out in the sea about 70 Kms from where I live (they later reduced it to 5.1). It was actually really strong, I felt it nearly as intense as the 7.2 we had eleven years ago, probably because its epicenter was so close. In the Bay Islands which is even closer a friend told me the buildings taller than two stories were swaying. Fortunately I know of no damage.
Well after that I just had to take double the sleeping pills in order to sleep I was really uptight, but I think I finally fell asleep around 1:00 am, lucky too because there was a 4.3 after shock at 1:30 if I had felt that one I would have had to sleep outside, my nerves just aren't what they used to be.
Give this one a look.
https://www.usgs.gov/
I did look at it this morning, they have it at 4.5, I can assure you I have been through quite a lot of shakes and what we had last night was no 4.5. I trust Ineter more, they are closer, they have good technology and with the amount of quakes they get in Nicaragua they better have good data.
I've been in three, two in Acapulco, and one in Oklahoma.
When the neighbors started screaming in Acapulco I started getting nervous, but it stopped.
The one in Oklahoma seemed more like a bomb had gone off than the ground shaking.
I think depth has an impact on how much the surface shakes.
Was there a tsunami?
No, no tsunamis around here I think the distance is too short from the epicenter for one to be created, if there were one I would think it would flow outwards towards the Caribbean. Yes the depth has a lot to say in an earthquake, the farther down the less the shaking.