Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Buff Bay in Jamaica

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A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Buff Bay in Jamaica. The temblor was reported at 01:02:44 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -76.6087° West, 18.25° North. Id of earthquake: us6000mvkh. Event ids that are associated: us6000mvkh. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 01:02:44 / May 2, 2024 @ 1:02 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, Jamaica (c. 2 847 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Kingston (c. 937 700 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from New Kingston (c. 584 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Spanish Town (c. 145 000 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Portmore (c. 102 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from May Pen (c. 44 800 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Old Harbour (c. 26 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Porus, Lionel Town, Runaway Bay.

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. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 5 km ENE of Buff Bay, Jamaica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.6087° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.25° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km ENE of Buff Bay, Jamaica	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-02 01:02:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-02 20:22:17	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	19	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.3	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	252	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	44	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.88	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us6000mvkh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mvkh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mvkh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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