A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from East End in Cayman Islands. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:18:08 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007int. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007int. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.8039 West, latitude 18.9175 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 01:18:08 / January 29, 2020 @ 1:18 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop).
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 twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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