Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Grande Anse in Guadeloupe


Earthquake location 16.7085S, -60.6958WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Grande Anse in Guadeloupe on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.69 km (16 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007e6i. Id of event: us20007e6i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -60.6958 West, latitude 16.7085 North, depth = 25.69 km. The temblor was detected at 13:25:24 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/10/16 / 2016-10-14 17:25:24 / October 14, 2016 @ 5:25 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Port-Louis, Petit-Canal, Sainte-Anne. The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Sainte-Anne (c. 22 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Le Moule (c. 22 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Saint-François (c. 12 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Petit-Canal (c. 8 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Port-Louis (c. 5 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Anse-Bertrand (c. 5 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Questions or comments?

How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 60 km NE of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe.

Copyright © 2016 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.6958° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.7085° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km NE of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-10-14 17:25:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-14 18:30:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.53 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 224 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007e6i Id of event.
Event Code 20007e6i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007e6i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply