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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Santiago de Cuba in Cuba

Posted by admin on August 3, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.621S, -75.4845WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Santiago de Cuba in Cuba on Thursday. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:58:22 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/17 / 2017-08-03 18:58:22 / August 3, 2017 @ 6:58 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a4a6. Unique identifier: us2000a4a6. Exact location of earthquake, -75.4845° West, 19.621° North, depth 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Palma Soriano (c. 102 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palma Soriano, San Luis, Guantánamo.

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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 56 km SE of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.4845° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.621° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km 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 2017-08-03 18:58:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-03 21:24:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.8 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 236 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 0.465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 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 us2000a4a6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a4a6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a4a6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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