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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Bodden Town in Cayman Islands

Posted by admin on February 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6867S, -81.2648WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Bodden Town in Cayman Islands on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000851k. Event ids that are associated: us6000851k. The temblor was picked up at 19:25:19 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -81.2648 West, latitude 18.6867 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/02/20 / 2020-02-27 00:25:19 / February 27, 2020 @ 12:25 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km S of Bodden Town, Cayman Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.2648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6867° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km S of Bodden Town, Cayman Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-27 00:25:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-27 01:32:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 178 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 3.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000851k Id of event.
Event Code 6000851k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000851k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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