Quakedle
Puzzle #90 was 18 km W of Río Grande, Panama.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M6.1 — strong class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Mexico and Central America
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 8 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- green PAGER alert
- Tectonic plates
- Cocos Plate · North American Plate · Caribbean Plate
- Tectonic context
- The Cocos Plate subducts beneath Mexico and Central America, while faults accommodate motion among the North American and Caribbean plates.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M6.1. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Strong (M6.0–6.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “18 km W of Río Grande, Panama”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Mexico and Central America
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mww”. What does that code mean?
- Mww — W-phase moment magnitude