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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near George Town in Cayman Islands

Posted by admin on November 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8442S, -81.8384WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 167 km SSW of George Town, Cayman Islands (104 miles). Event id: us10003yjy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003yjy. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 00:39:33 / November 16, 2015 @ 12:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.1 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -81.8384 West, latitude 17.8442 North, depth = 9.1 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:39:33 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 167 km SSW of George Town, Cayman Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.8384° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8442° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 167km SSW of George Town, Cayman Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-16 00:39:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-16 00:57:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 3.46 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 1.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10003yjy Id of event.
Event Code 10003yjy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yjy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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