Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Guantanamo in Cuba

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Guantanamo in Cuba on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/17 / 2017-05-10 15:36:34 / May 10, 2017 @ 3:36 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:36:34 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 21.27 km, -75.2334° West, 19.813° North. Unique identifier: us10008rab. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008rab. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.27 km (13 miles).

Close country/countries, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, Río Guayabal de Yateras (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Río Guayabal de Yateras (c. 25 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km S of Guantanamo, Cuba.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-75.2334° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.813° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.27 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km S of Guantanamo, Cuba	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-10 15:36:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-10 21:36:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	160	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	0.161	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us10008rab	Id of event.
Event Code	10008rab	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10008rab,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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