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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 31 km SSW of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba


Earthquake location 19.7596S, -75.9358WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Santiago de Cuba in Cuba. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/10/24 / 2024-10-17 14:50:31 / October 17, 2024 @ 2:50 pm. Unique identifier: us6000nzct. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nzct. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:50:31 / 2:50 pm (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, longitude -75.9358 West, latitude 19.7596 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Palma Soriano (c. 102 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Contramaestre (c. 70 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Urbano Noris (c. 43 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Jiguaní (c. 41 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Urbano Noris, Guantánamo, Jiguaní.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km SSW of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.9358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31 km SSW of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-17 14:50:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-17 16:33:03 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 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5 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 50 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 us6000nzct Id of event.
Event Code 6000nzct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nzct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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