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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Bathsheba in Barbados


Earthquake location 13.889S, -58.9876WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Bathsheba in Barbados. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -58.9876 West, latitude 13.889 North, depth = 11.1 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:55:23 / 3:55 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.1 km (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 19:55:23 / July 25, 2015 @ 7:55 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000304e. Unique identifier: us2000304e.

The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Bathsheba (c. 1 800 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Greenland (c. 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bathsheba, Greenland (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Barbados (c. 286 000 pop).

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 nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 93 km NE of Bathsheba, Barbados.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -58.9876° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km 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 2015-07-25 19:55:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-25 21:49:54 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 340 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 0.926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us2000304e Id of event.
Event Code 2000304e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000304e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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