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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Codrington in Barbuda


Earthquake location 17.5869S, -61.2201WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Codrington in Barbuda. The temblor was detected at 14:10:38 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.84 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 18:10:38 / November 10, 2018 @ 6:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -61.2201 West, latitude 17.5869 North, depth = 24.84 km. Id of earthquake: us1000hqcd. Event ids that are associated: us1000hqcd.

Earthquake epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Saint John’s (c. 24 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Piggotts (c. 1 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bolands (c. 1 700 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Codrington (c. 1 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Parham (c. 1 000 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Falmouth (c. 600 pop). Close country/countries, Antigua and Barbuda (c. 87 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bolands, Falmouth, Saint John’s.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 63 km E of Codrington, Barbuda. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.2201° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5869° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km E 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 2018-11-10 18:10:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 18:49:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 284 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 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000hqcd Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqcd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqcd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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