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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Kellits in Jamaica

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Kellits in Jamaica. Exact location of event, depth 14.96 km, -77.2998° West, 18.165° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.96 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 04:42:19 / March 28, 2016 @ 4:42 am. Event id: us20005cug. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005cug. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:42:19 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Jamaica (c. 2 847 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yallahs, Montego Bay, Black River (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Kingston (c. 937 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from New Kingston (c. 584 000 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Spanish Town (c. 145 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Portmore (c. 102 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Montego Bay (c. 82 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Mandeville (c. 47 100 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 7 km WNW of Kellits, Jamaica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-77.2998° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.165° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7km WNW of Kellits, Jamaica	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-28 04:42:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-28 05:35:42	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	200	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	0.231	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us20005cug	Id of event.
Event Code	20005cug	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005cug,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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