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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Agaete in Spain

Posted by admin on February 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 28.2989S, -15.9541WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Agaete in Spain. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/01/19 / 2019-01-18 06:36:50 / January 18, 2019 @ 6:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude -15.9541 West, latitude 28.2989 North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us2000j5kz. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000j5kz. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:36:50 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Buenavista del Norte, Los Silos, Santiago del Teide. The epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (c. 381 800 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Santa Cruz de Tenerife (c. 222 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from La Laguna (c. 150 700 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Telde (c. 100 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arona (c. 78 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Santa Lucía (c. 63 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 33 km NW of Agaete, Spain.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -15.9541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 28.2989° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km NW of Agaete, Spain Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-18 06:36:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-10 07:57:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -60 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 0.491 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 113 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j5kz Id of event.
Event Code 2000j5kz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j5kz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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