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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Grande Anse in Guadeloupe

Posted by admin on December 4, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.126S, -60.7216WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Grande Anse in Guadeloupe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 20:20:06 / 8:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -60.7216 West, latitude 16.126 North, depth = 42.16 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 42.16 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 00:20:06 / November 20, 2017 @ 12:20 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvwx. Id of event: us2000bvwx.

Nearby country/countries, Guadeloupe (c. 443 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Les Abymes (c. 63 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Le Gosier (c. 28 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Petit-Bourg (c. 25 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Sainte-Anne (c. 22 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Le Moule (c. 22 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Capesterre-Belle-Eau (c. 19 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Petit-Bourg, Port-Louis, Anse-Bertrand.

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

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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: 42 km ESE of Grande Anse, Guadeloupe.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.7216° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.126° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 42km ESE 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 2017-11-20 00:20:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-04 06:04:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 285 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 0.379 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us2000bvwx Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvwx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvwx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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