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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Sainte-Luce in Martinique

Posted by admin on August 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.481S, -60.9743WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Sainte-Luce in Martinique on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us7000bd2u. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bd2u. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:03:42 / 5:03 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 127.06 km (79 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -60.9743° West, 14.481° North, depth 127.06 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/08/20 / 2020-08-26 05:03:42 / August 26, 2020 @ 5:03 am UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 15 km (9 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Castries (c. 20 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 10 km (7 miles) from Ducos (c. 17 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Pointe Michel, Soufrière, Berekua. Nearby country/countries, Saint Lucia (c. 161 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 5 km WNW of Sainte-Luce, Martinique. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.9743° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 127.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km WNW of Sainte-Luce, Martinique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-08-26 05:03:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 05:25:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 326 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 0.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us7000bd2u Id of event.
Event Code 7000bd2u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bd2u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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