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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 145 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados


Earthquake location 13.7619S, -58.2964WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 145 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados (90 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:28:03 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003pgw. Id of event: us20003pgw. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.76 km (9 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -58.2964 West, latitude 13.7619 North, depth = 14.76 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 09:28:03 / September 27, 2015 @ 9:28 am.

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

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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: 145 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -58.2964° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.7619° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 145km ENE 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 2015-09-27 09:28:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-10-16 09:39:27 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 312 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 1.373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us20003pgw Id of event.
Event Code 20003pgw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003pgw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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