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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Santiago de Cuba in Cuba

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Santiago de Cuba in Cuba. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 23.35 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10008kpi. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008kpi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.471 West, latitude 19.6456 North, depth = 23.35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/04/17 / 2017-04-25 14:42:58 / April 25, 2017 @ 2:42 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:42:58 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Palma Soriano (c. 102 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Río Guayabal de Yateras (c. 25 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Río Guayabal de Yateras, Palma Soriano, San Luis (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 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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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km SE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.471° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.6456° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km SE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-04-25 14:42:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-25 15:25:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	17	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.2	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	347	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	0.439	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	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	us10008kpi	Id of event.
Event Code	10008kpi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008kpi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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