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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Plymouth in Montserrat


Earthquake location 16.4308S, -62.4464WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Plymouth in Montserrat. Global time and date of event 06/12/17 / 2017-12-06 16:57:16 / December 6, 2017 @ 4:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -62.4464° West, 16.4308° North, depth 168.73 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 12:57:16 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 168.73 km (105 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmsn. Id of event: us1000bmsn.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint-Claude, Basse-Terre, Lamentin. Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from Sainte-Rose (c. 20 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Lamentin (c. 14 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Basse-Terre (c. 11 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Saint-Claude (c. 10 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Pointe-Noire (c. 7 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Vieux-Habitants (c. 7 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop).

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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km SW of Plymouth, Montserrat. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -62.4464° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.4308° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 168.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SW of Plymouth, Montserrat Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-12-06 16:57:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-06 22:25:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 259 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 0.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us1000bmsn Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmsn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bmsn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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