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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Gayle in Jamaica

Posted by admin on August 22, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.3099S, -76.9935WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Gayle in Jamaica on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -76.9935 West, latitude 18.3099 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/19 / 2019-08-22 11:45:16 / August 22, 2019 @ 11:45 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:45:16 / 6:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us70005725. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005725.

Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Kingston (c. 937 700 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from New Kingston (c. 584 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Spanish Town (c. 145 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Portmore (c. 102 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Mandeville (c. 47 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, Jamaica (c. 2 847 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Santa Cruz, Bull Savanna, Morant Bay (min 5000 pop).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 2 km SE of Gayle, Jamaica. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.9935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km SE of Gayle, Jamaica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-22 11:45:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-22 12:24:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 150 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 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb_lg The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005725 Id of event.
Event Code 70005725 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005725, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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