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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Guantánamo in Cuba

Posted by admin on January 17, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6953S, -75.3646WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Guantánamo in Cuba. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -75.3646 West, latitude 19.6953 North, depth = 10 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:19:34 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/01/21 / 2021-01-17 01:19:34 / January 17, 2021 @ 1:19 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000d0uk. Unique identifier: us7000d0uk.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Río Guayabal de Yateras, San Luis, Santiago de Cuba (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (37 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Río Guayabal de Yateras (c. 25 800 pop). Close country/countries, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km SSW of Guantánamo, Cuba. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.3646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6953° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km SSW of Guantánamo, Cuba Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-17 01:19:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-17 09:06:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 189 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 0.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us7000d0uk Id of event.
Event Code 7000d0uk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d0uk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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