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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Codrington in Barbuda

Posted by admin on October 26, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7779S, -61.1563WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Codrington in Barbuda. Id of earthquake: us1000725g. Event ids that are associated: us1000725g. The temblor was picked up at 13:50:37 / 1:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/10/16 / 2016-10-26 17:50:37 / October 26, 2016 @ 5:50 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -61.1563 West, latitude 17.7779 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Codrington. Close country/countries, Antigua and Barbuda (c. 87 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Codrington (c. 1 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 71 km ENE of Codrington, Barbuda. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.1563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km ENE of Codrington, Barbuda Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-26 17:50:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-26 21:40:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 0.609 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111 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 us1000725g Id of event.
Event Code 1000725g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000725g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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