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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near El Cobre in Cuba

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 30 kilometers (19 miles) from El Cobre in Cuba on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -76.0465 West, latitude 19.7937 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 17:37:10 / 5:37 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/01/16 / 2016-01-25 22:37:10 / January 25, 2016 @ 10:37 pm. Unique identifier: us20004uil. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004uil.

Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bayamo (c. 192 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Palma Soriano (c. 102 800 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Contramaestre (c. 70 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Urbano Noris (c. 43 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Urbano Noris, Bayamo, Jiguaní.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 30 km SSW of El Cobre, Cuba.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-76.0465° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7937° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	30km SSW of El Cobre, Cuba	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-01-25 22:37:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-25 23:02:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	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	298	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	0.89	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	42	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	us20004uil	Id of event.
Event Code	20004uil	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004uil,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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