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Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Petionville in Haiti

Posted by admin on May 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5045S, -72.2934WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Petionville in Haiti. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 01:38:24 / May 14, 2016 @ 1:38 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.04 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10005hm5. Event ids that are associated: us10005hm5. Exact location of event, longitude -72.2934 West, latitude 18.5045 North, depth = 9.04 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:38:24 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 6 km (4 miles) from Port-au-Prince (c. 1 234 700 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Carrefour (c. 442 200 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Delmas 73 (c. 382 900 pop), 1 km (1 miles) from Pétionville (c. 283 100 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Croix des Bouquets (c. 229 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Mayisad, Comendador, Anse à Galets (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 1 km SW of Petionville, Haiti.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.2934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5045° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km SW of Petionville, Haiti Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-14 01:38:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-15 22:23:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 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 124 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 0.296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us10005hm5 Id of event.
Event Code 10005hm5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005hm5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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