A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from East End in Cayman Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.03 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us60007it9. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007it9. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 05:16:44 / January 29, 2020 @ 5:16 am. The temblor was detected at 00:16:44 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.7581 West, latitude 18.9126 North, depth = 10.03 km.
Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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: 57 km SE of East End, Cayman Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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