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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Gros Islet in Saint Lucia

Posted by admin on July 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.1743S, -61.0973WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Gros Islet in Saint Lucia on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -61.0973° West, 14.1743° North, depth 32.57 km. Global time and date of event 24/07/19 / 2019-07-24 17:05:06 / July 24, 2019 @ 5:05 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 13:05:06 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.57 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60004v5p. Id of event: us60004v5p.

Country/countries that might be effected, Saint Lucia (c. 161 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Castries (c. 20 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Le Lorrain, Sainte-Marie, Le Morne-Rouge (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km NW of Gros Islet, Saint Lucia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.0973° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.1743° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km NW of Gros Islet, Saint Lucia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-24 17:05:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-24 22:51:10 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 148 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 0.343 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 314 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 us60004v5p Id of event.
Event Code 60004v5p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004v5p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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