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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 52 km ENE of Codrington, Antigua and Barbuda

Posted by admin on November 15, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8612S, -61.383WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Codrington in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.51 km (14 miles). Unique identifier: us7000ns32. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ns32. Exact location of event, longitude -61.383 West, latitude 17.8612 North, depth = 22.51 km. The temblor was detected at 22:32:01 / 10:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/11/24 / 2024-11-15 22:32:01 / November 15, 2024 @ 10:32 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Codrington (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Antigua and Barbuda (c. 87 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Codrington (c. 1 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km ENE of Codrington, Antigua and Barbuda. 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 -61.383° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8612° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km ENE of Codrington, Antigua and Barbuda Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-15 22:32:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-15 22:47:45 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.429 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 us7000ns32 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ns32 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ns32, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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