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Strong earthquake: M6.3 quake has struck near Savannah Bight in Honduras


Earthquake location 17S, -85.7WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Savannah Bight in Honduras. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/04/20 / 2020-04-16 08:04:39 / April 16, 2020 @ 8:04 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Savannah Bight in Honduras (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -85.7° West, 17° North, depth 33 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:04:39 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: at00q8vfrr. Event ids that are associated: pt20107000, at00q8vfrr.

Close country/countries, Honduras (c. 7 989 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 123 km (77 miles) from Trujillo (c. 9 600 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Coxen Hole (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo, Coxen Hole (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 62 km NNE of Savannah Bight, Honduras.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -85.7° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km NNE of Savannah Bight, Honduras Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-04-16 08:04:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-16 08:12:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 1 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 611 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 127 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.933723 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39.599996832 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00q8vfrr Id of event.
Event Code 00q8vfrr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20107000,at00q8vfrr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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