Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Codrington in Barbuda

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 122 km N of Codrington, Barbuda (76 miles) on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: pt17332000. Unique identifier: pt17332000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:12:38 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/17 / 2017-11-28 00:12:38 / November 28, 2017 @ 12:12 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -61.731° West, 18.735° North.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 122 km N of Codrington, Barbuda.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-61.731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.735° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	122km N of Codrington, Barbuda	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-28 00:12:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-28 00:22:13	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	2.2	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	385	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pt	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	251.99997984	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	pt17332000	Id of event.
Event Code	17332000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt17332000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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