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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Codrington in Barbuda

Posted by admin on November 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.5996S, -61.1222WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Codrington in Barbuda. The temblor was picked up at 12:25:45 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/11/18 / 2018-11-10 16:25:45 / November 10, 2018 @ 4:25 pm. Event id: us1000hqas. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hqas. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.48 km (13 miles). Exact location of event, depth 21.48 km, -61.1222° West, 17.5996° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Antigua and Barbuda (c. 87 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 94 km (58 miles) from Saint John’s (c. 24 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Piggotts (c. 1 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Codrington (c. 1 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Parham (c. 1 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Falmouth (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Falmouth, Saint John’s, Piggotts.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 73 km E of Codrington, Barbuda.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.1222° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5996° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km 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 16:25:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-10 16:38:03 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 312 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 0.636 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us1000hqas Id of event.
Event Code 1000hqas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000hqas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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