Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Guisa in Cuba

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Guisa in Cuba. The temblor was detected at 17:41:22 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70009net. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009net. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.4107 West, latitude 19.7178 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/05/20 / 2020-05-17 22:41:22 / May 17, 2020 @ 10:41 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yara, San Luis, Bayamo. Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamo (c. 192 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Palma Soriano (c. 102 800 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Contramaestre (c. 70 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Bartolomé Masó (c. 53 000 pop). Close country/countries, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 60 km SSE of Guisa, Cuba. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.4107° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7178° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km SSE 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 22:41:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-25 03:53:02	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	0.257	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us70009net	Id of event.
Event Code	70009net	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009net,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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