Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Lucea in Jamaica

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 114 km NNW of Lucea, Jamaica (71 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:53:14 / 9:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -78.6692° West, 19.3697° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 14:53:14 / January 29, 2020 @ 2:53 pm. Unique identifier: us60007j3t. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007j3t. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 114 km NNW of Lucea, Jamaica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-78.6692° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3697° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114km NNW of Lucea, Jamaica	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-29 14:53:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-29 15:10:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	401	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	1.565	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us60007j3t	Id of event.
Event Code	60007j3t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us60007j3t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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