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Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag was detected near Bathsheba in Barbados

Posted by admin on July 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.8291S, -58.6414WA earthquake with magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 116 kilometers (72 miles) from Bathsheba in Barbados. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -58.6414 West, latitude 13.8291 North, depth = 5.56 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 15:16:31 / July 16, 2015 @ 3:16 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Bathsheba in Barbados (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us20002xx1. Event ids that are associated: at00nrl6fn, pt15197051, us20002xx1. The temblor was picked up at 11:16:31 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.56 km (3 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Holetown, Oistins, Speightstown (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 127 km (79 miles) from Speightstown (c. 3 600 pop), 128 km (80 miles) from Oistins (c. 2 300 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Bathsheba (c. 1 800 pop), 129 km (80 miles) from Holetown (c. 1 400 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Crane (c. 900 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Greenland (c. 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Barbados (c. 286 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 116 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -58.6414° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.8291° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km 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 15:16:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 15:39:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 39 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.1 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 646 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 ,at,pt,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 1.123 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002xx1 Id of event.
Event Code 20002xx1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nrl6fn,pt15197051,us20002xx1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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