A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 41 kilometers (25 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). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 23:04:23 / January 28, 2020 @ 11:04 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -80.8772° West, 19.0063° North. The temblor was picked up at 18:04:23 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us60007iku. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007iku.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town. Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 41 km SE of East End, Cayman Islands.
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