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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Petite Riviere de Nippes in Haiti


Earthquake location 18.4139S, -73.3073WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Petite Riviere de Nippes in Haiti. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us1000d4ku. Event ids that are associated: us1000d4ku. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 02:32:23 / March 15, 2018 @ 2:32 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -73.3073° West, 18.4139° North. The temblor was reported at 21:32:23 / 9:32 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Léogâne (c. 134 200 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Les Cayes (c. 125 800 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tigwav (c. 117 500 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Miragoâne (c. 89 200 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Grangwav (c. 49 300 pop). Close country/countries, Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Léogâne, Anse à Galets, Grangwav (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km SW of Petite Riviere de Nippes, Haiti.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.3073° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4139° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Petite Riviere de Nippes, Haiti Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-15 02:32:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-15 04:26:11 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 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 158 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 0.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 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 us1000d4ku Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4ku An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000d4ku, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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