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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Mavis Bank in Jamaica

Posted by admin on May 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0827S, -76.5614WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Mavis Bank in Jamaica. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -76.5614° West, 18.0827° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/20 / 2020-05-14 21:03:32 / May 14, 2020 @ 9:03 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70009gad. Event ids that are associated: us70009gad. The temblor was picked up at 16:03:32 / 4:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Kingston (c. 937 700 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from New Kingston (c. 584 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Spanish Town (c. 145 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Portmore (c. 102 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from May Pen (c. 44 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Jamaica (c. 2 847 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Ann’s Bay, Lionel Town, Hayes (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 12 km ENE of Mavis Bank, Jamaica.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.5614° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0827° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km ENE of Mavis Bank, Jamaica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-14 21:03:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-14 21:27:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 139 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 0.936 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 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 us70009gad Id of event.
Event Code 70009gad An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009gad, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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