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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Scarborough in Trinidad and Tobago


Earthquake location 11.0479S, -60.7872WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Scarborough in Trinidad and Tobago. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.14 km (23 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -60.7872 West, latitude 11.0479 North, depth = 37.14 km. The temblor was detected at 18:12:25 / 6:12 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/16 / 2016-12-06 22:12:25 / December 6, 2016 @ 10:12 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ghq. Unique identifier: us10007ghq.

Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Chaguanas (c. 67 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arima (c. 35 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tunapuna (c. 17 800 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Scarborough (c. 17 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Chaguanas, Port-of-Spain, Petit Valley. Close country/countries that might be effected, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 16 km SSW of Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.7872° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 11.0479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSW of Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-06 22:12:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 22:38:11 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 284 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 0.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007ghq Id of event.
Event Code 10007ghq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ghq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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