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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Croix des Bouquets in Haiti

Posted by admin on December 16, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5936S, -72.1514WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Croix des Bouquets in Haiti. Id of earthquake: us2000iu8m. Event ids that are associated: us2000iu8m. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -72.1514° West, 18.5936° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 16:15:44 / December 16, 2018 @ 4:15 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:15:44 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dessalines, Pignon, Saint-Marc. Event epicenter was 20 km (13 miles) from Port-au-Prince (c. 1 234 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Carrefour (c. 442 200 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Delmas 73 (c. 382 900 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Pétionville (c. 283 100 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Croix des Bouquets (c. 229 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Jacmel (c. 138 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km ENE of Croix des Bouquets, Haiti. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1514° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km ENE of Croix des Bouquets, Haiti Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-16 16:15:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-16 23:13:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 189 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 0.904 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us2000iu8m Id of event.
Event Code 2000iu8m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000iu8m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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