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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake strikes near Sainte-Marie in Martinique


Earthquake location 15.2969S, -60.4741WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) was reported Monday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Sainte-Marie in Martinique. The temblor was reported at 05:52:26 / 5:52 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 46.82 km (29 miles). Global time of event 2015-02-16 09:52:26 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -60.4741 West, latitude 15.2969 North, depth 46.82 km.

Close countries, Martinique (c. 433 000 pop). The epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Saint-Joseph (c. 17 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Petite Rivière Salée (c. 15 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pont Cassé, Saint-Joseph, Le Vauclin.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.4741° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.2969° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km NE of Sainte-Marie, Martinique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-02-16 21:52:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-02-18 23:29:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 298 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID usb000tpur Id of event.
Event Code b000tpur An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usb000tpur, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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