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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 1 km WNW of Hope Bay, Jamaica


Earthquake location 18.2051S, -76.5733WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Hope Bay in Jamaica. Exact location, longitude -76.5733° West, latitude 18.2051° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 21:28:31 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000h8l6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000h8l6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/18 / 2018-10-08 02:28:31 / October 8, 2018 @ 2:28 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Jamaica (c. 2 847 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Runaway Bay, Lionel Town, Hayes (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Kingston (c. 937 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from New Kingston (c. 584 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Spanish Town (c. 145 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Portmore (c. 102 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from May Pen (c. 44 800 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Old Harbour (c. 26 000 pop).

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 has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km WNW of Hope Bay, Jamaica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.5733° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2051° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km WNW of Hope Bay, Jamaica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-08 02:28:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-08 02:53:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 10 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.2 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 203 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 0.913 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us1000h8l6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h8l6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h8l6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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