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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Santiago de Cuba in Cuba

Posted by admin on August 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.62S, -75.4253WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Santiago de Cuba in Cuba. All ids that are associated to the event: us100033hw. Unique identifier: us100033hw. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23.74 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 05:24:27 / August 19, 2015 @ 5:24 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -75.4253 West, latitude 19.62 North, depth = 23.74 km. The temblor was reported at 00:24:27 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 61 km (38 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis, Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km SE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.4253° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.62° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-19 05:24:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 22:23:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 223 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 0.425 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100033hw Id of event.
Event Code 100033hw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100033hw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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