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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Grande Anse in Guadeloupe

Posted by admin on January 4, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.8489S, -61.0629WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Grande Anse in Guadeloupe. Event id: us2000j0eh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j0eh. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:52:47 / 6:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -61.0629° West, 16.8489° North, depth 31.59 km. Global time and date of event 04/01/19 / 2019-01-04 22:52:47 / January 4, 2019 @ 10:52 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.59 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petit-Bourg, Bolands, Sainte-Rose (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (49 miles) from Les Abymes (c. 63 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Baie-Mahault (c. 30 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Le Gosier (c. 28 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Petit-Bourg (c. 25 000 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Saint John’s (c. 24 200 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Sainte-Anne (c. 22 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Antigua and Barbuda (c. 87 000 pop), Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km N of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.0629° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.8489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km N of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-04 22:52:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-04 23:10:00 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 298 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 0.533 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us2000j0eh Id of event.
Event Code 2000j0eh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j0eh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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