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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Basse-Pointe in Martinique


Earthquake location 14.9502S, -61.297WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (mg/mb) has occurred on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Basse-Pointe in Martinique. The temblor was reported at 17:11:04 / 5:11 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 147.73 km (92 miles). Global time of event 20/04/15 / 2015-04-20 21:11:04 / April 20, 2015 @ 9:11 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -61.297 West, latitude 14.9502 North, depth 147.73 km, unique identifier, us200029u7.

Close countries, Martinique (c. 433 000 pop). The epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Ducos (c. 17 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Portsmouth, Le Marin, Wesley.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.297° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.9502° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km WNW of Basse-Pointe, Martinique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-04-20 21:11:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-05-01 01:02:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us200029u7 Id of event.
Event Code 200029u7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200029u7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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