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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Saint-Pierre in Martinique

Posted by admin on December 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 14.5934S, -61.3714WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Saint-Pierre in Martinique on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.87 km (95 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/12/15 / 2015-12-28 06:55:30 / December 28, 2015 @ 6:55 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10004a1v. Event ids that are associated: us10004a1v. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:55:30 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -61.3714° West, 14.5934° North, depth 152.87 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Portsmouth, Wesley, Vieux Fort (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Castries (c. 20 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Ducos (c. 17 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Saint-Joseph (c. 17 000 pop). Close country/countries, Saint Lucia (c. 161 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 26 km SW of Saint-Pierre, Martinique. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -61.3714° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.5934° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km SW of Saint-Pierre, Martinique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-28 06:55:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-28 07:10:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 483 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 0.305 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004a1v Id of event.
Event Code 10004a1v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004a1v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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