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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 114 km N of Codrington, Barbuda

Posted by admin on February 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6524S, -61.9722WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 114 km N of Codrington, Barbuda (71 miles) on Friday. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:43:37 / 1:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -61.9722° West, latitude 18.6524° North, depth = 43.44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/02/18 / 2018-02-09 17:43:37 / February 9, 2018 @ 5:43 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18040003, us2000czp4. Id of event: us2000czp4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 114 km N of Codrington, Barbuda.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.9722° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6524° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km 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 2018-02-09 17:43:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 18:09:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 29 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 430 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 ,pt,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 1.206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000czp4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000czp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18040003,us2000czp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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