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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Scarborough in Trinidad and Tobago


Earthquake location 11.0321S, -60.937WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Scarborough in Trinidad and Tobago. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zkx. Id of event: us20007zkx. The temblor was reported at 13:34:46 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -60.937° West, latitude 11.0321° North, depth = 50.73 km. Global time and date of event 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 17:34:46 / December 9, 2016 @ 5:34 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.73 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Chaguanas (c. 67 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Rio Claro (c. 35 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arima (c. 35 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Tunapuna (c. 17 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Couva, Rio Claro, Chaguanas. Close country/countries, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 27 km SW of Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.937° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km SW of Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-09 17:34:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-13 16:44:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 298 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 0.474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us20007zkx Id of event.
Event Code 20007zkx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007zkx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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