Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 60 km S of Guisa, Cuba

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Guisa in Cuba. Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 23:00:22 / May 17, 2020 @ 11:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -76.433° West, 19.7207° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 18:00:22 / 6:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70009nev. Unique identifier: us70009nev. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cauto Cristo, Yara, San Luis (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamo (c. 192 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Palma Soriano (c. 102 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Contramaestre (c. 70 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Bartolomé Masó (c. 53 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.433° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7207° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km S of Guisa, Cuba	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-05-17 23:00:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-23 05:27:22	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	284	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	0.255	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	64	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	us70009nev	Id of event.
Event Code	70009nev	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009nev,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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