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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Les Cayes in Haiti


Earthquake location 17.9722S, -73.6104WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Les Cayes in Haiti. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -73.6104° West, 17.9722° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us70005l4q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005l4q. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:44:37 / 8:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 13:44:37 / September 25, 2019 @ 1:44 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Les Cayes (c. 125 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Tigwav (c. 117 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Jérémie (c. 97 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Miragoâne (c. 89 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Les Anglais (c. 8 200 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Aquin (c. 5 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tigwav, Jérémie, Miragoâne (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 29 km SSE of Les Cayes, Haiti.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -73.6104° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9722° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SSE of Les Cayes, Haiti Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-09-25 13:44:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 22:04:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 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 326 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 2.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us70005l4q Id of event.
Event Code 70005l4q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005l4q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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