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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Sainte-Marie in Martinique

Posted by admin on August 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.1183S, -60.4098WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Sainte-Marie in Martinique. The temblor was picked up at 03:58:33 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us100069fs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069fs. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/16 / 2016-08-02 07:58:33 / August 2, 2016 @ 7:58 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.07 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -60.4098 West, latitude 15.1183 North, depth = 39.07 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Martinique (c. 433 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Ducos (c. 17 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Saint-Joseph (c. 17 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Berekua, Rosalie, Les Trois-Îlets (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km ENE of Sainte-Marie, Martinique. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.4098° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.07 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km ENE of Sainte-Marie, Martinique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-02 07:58:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-15 06:52:57 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 326 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 0.565 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 169 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 us100069fs Id of event.
Event Code 100069fs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069fs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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