Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag has occurred near East End in Cayman Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from East End in Cayman Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 19:41:34 / January 28, 2020 @ 7:41 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60007igs. Event ids that are associated: us60007igs. Exact location, longitude -80.654° West, latitude 18.9848° North, depth = 10 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:41:34 / 2:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was George Town, Bodden Town.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 59 km SE of East End, Cayman Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-80.654° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9848° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km SE of East End, Cayman Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-28 19:41:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-28 21:58:14	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	234	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	3.053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us60007igs	Id of event.
Event Code	60007igs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007igs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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