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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Cortes de la Frontera in Spain

Posted by admin on October 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.6414S, -5.3689WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Cortes de la Frontera in Spain. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c8mr. Id of event: us6000c8mr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -5.3689 West, latitude 36.6414 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 16/10/20 / 2020-10-16 00:58:49 / October 16, 2020 @ 12:58 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 00:58:49 / 12:58 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Spain (c. 46 506 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was La Puebla del Río, Herrera, Fuentes de Andalucía. Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Málaga (c. 568 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Jerez de la Frontera (c. 207 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Marbella (c. 134 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cadiz (c. 126 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Dos Hermanas (c. 122 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Algeciras (c. 116 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 3 km NW of Cortes de la Frontera, Spain. 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 -5.3689° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.6414° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3 km NW of Cortes de la Frontera, Spain Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-10-16 00:58:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-16 01:28:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 0.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000c8mr Id of event.
Event Code 6000c8mr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c8mr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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