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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Grand-Bourg in Guadeloupe

Posted by admin on October 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 15.9829S, -60.9903WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Grand-Bourg in Guadeloupe. Unique identifier: us7000np7m. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000np7m. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 78.648 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 15:22:19 / October 31, 2024 @ 3:22 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -60.9903° West, 15.9829° North, depth 78.648 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:22:19 / 3:22 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Les Abymes (c. 63 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Baie-Mahault (c. 30 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Le Gosier (c. 28 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Petit-Bourg (c. 25 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Sainte-Anne (c. 22 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Le Moule (c. 22 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Soufrière, Berekua, Pointe Michel (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 36 km ENE of Grand-Bourg, Guadeloupe.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.9903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.9829° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 78.648 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 km ENE of Grand-Bourg, Guadeloupe Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-31 15:22:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 16:41:05 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 298 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.283 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us7000np7m Id of event.
Event Code 7000np7m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np7m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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