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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 119 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados


Earthquake location 13.9105S, -58.6663WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 119 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados (74 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/07/15 / 2015-07-28 11:37:55 / July 28, 2015 @ 11:37 am UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:37:55 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.43 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us200030se. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200030se. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -58.6663 West, latitude 13.9105 North, depth = 21.43 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 119 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -58.6663° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9105° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km 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 2015-07-28 11:37:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-28 13:18:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 1.155 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us200030se Id of event.
Event Code 200030se An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200030se, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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