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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Guantanamo in Cuba


Earthquake location 19.813S, -75.2334WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Guantanamo in Cuba on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/17 / 2017-05-10 15:36:34 / May 10, 2017 @ 3:36 pm. The temblor was picked up at 10:36:34 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 21.27 km, -75.2334° West, 19.813° North. Unique identifier: us10008rab. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008rab. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.27 km (13 miles).

Close country/countries, Cuba (c. 11 423 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, Río Guayabal de Yateras (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Santiago de Cuba (c. 555 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Guantánamo (c. 272 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from San Luis (c. 67 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Río Guayabal de Yateras (c. 25 800 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km S of Guantanamo, Cuba.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -75.2334° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.813° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km S of Guantanamo, Cuba Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-10 15:36:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-10 21:36:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 160 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 0.161 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us10008rab Id of event.
Event Code 10008rab An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008rab, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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