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Strong earthquake 6.5 mag, 140 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados


Earthquake location 14S, -58.5WA earthquake with magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 140 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados (87 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -58.5 West, latitude 14 North, depth = 23 km. The temblor was detected at 11:16:35 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bathsheba in Barbados (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 15:16:35 / July 16, 2015 @ 3:16 pm. Unique identifier: at00nrl6fn. Ids that are associated to the event: pt15197051, at00nrl6fn.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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: 140 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -58.5° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 140km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-16 15:16:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 15:23:45 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 651 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226.8 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 at00nrl6fn Id of event.
Event Code 00nrl6fn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt15197051,at00nrl6fn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

1 Comment

  1. John

    I was on the 5th floor Baobab building warrens in Barbados when the whole building rocked. we took the stairs down and stood out side in the open. I moved my car from the site and visited home to see if all was ok. For such a huge quake and no hurts ? Thanks God. Two earth quakes in the space of 4 hrs. God Cares about Barbados. No reported damage. we ride on the wings of LOVE.

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