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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Bodden Town in Cayman Islands


Earthquake location 18.8781S, -81.2573WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Bodden Town in Cayman Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -81.2573 West, latitude 18.8781 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000a4gd. Unique identifier: us2000a4gd. Global time and date of event 31/07/17 / 2017-07-31 03:41:58 / July 31, 2017 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 22:41:58 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town. Close country/countries, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 44 km S of Bodden Town, Cayman Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.2573° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8781° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km S of Bodden Town, Cayman Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-31 03:41:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-10 02:50:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 246 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 4.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us2000a4gd Id of event.
Event Code 2000a4gd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a4gd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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