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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Buras-Triumph in Louisiana

Posted by admin on May 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.005S, -88.625WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 171 km SSE of Buras-Triumph, Louisiana (106 miles) on Sunday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Buras-Triumph in Louisiana (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 16:47:14 / May 6, 2018 @ 4:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:47:14 / 10:47 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: at00p8bfyq. Ids that are associated to the event: at00p8bfyq. Exact location of event, depth 40 km, -88.625° West, 28.005° North.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 171 km SSE of Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -88.625° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.005° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 171km SSE of Buras-Triumph, Louisiana Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-06 16:47:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-06 16:58:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -360 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 1 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 370 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.433361 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111.599991072 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 at00p8bfyq Id of event.
Event Code 00p8bfyq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00p8bfyq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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