Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 142 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 142 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados (88 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 20.17 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:04:55 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -58.3578 West, latitude 13.8368 North, depth = 20.17 km. Global time and date of event 28/10/15 / 2015-10-28 14:04:55 / October 28, 2015 @ 2:04 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000405f. Event ids that are associated: us2000405f.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 142 km ENE of Bathsheba, Barbados.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-58.3578° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.8368° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	142km 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	2015-10-28 14:04:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-28 15:50:32	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	385	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	1.356	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	134	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	us2000405f	Id of event.
Event Code	2000405f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000405f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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