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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Bathsheba in Barbados

Posted by admin on July 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9431S, -58.4408WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 141 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados (88 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20002xx9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002xx9. Global time and date of event 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 15:36:15 / July 16, 2015 @ 3:36 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 11:36:15 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.22 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -58.4408° West, 13.9431° North, depth 13.22 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 141 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -58.4408° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9431° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-16 15:36:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 15:52:54 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 416 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 1.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us20002xx9 Id of event.
Event Code 20002xx9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002xx9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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