A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from East End in Cayman Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60007isg. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007isg. The temblor was picked up at 23:37:29 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -80.8277 West, latitude 18.9354 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 04:37:29 / January 29, 2020 @ 4:37 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 fourteen, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km SE of East End, Cayman Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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