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Minor earthquake: M3.34 quake has struck near Marigot in Saint Martin


Earthquake location 18.1351S, -63.83WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Marigot in Saint Martin. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 114 km (71 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.83 West, latitude 18.1351 North, depth = 114 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:48:37 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2018142012. Event ids that are associated: pr2018142012. Global time and date of event 22/05/18 / 2018-05-22 19:48:37 / May 22, 2018 @ 7:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was The Valley, Cul de Sac, Marigot. Close country/countries, Anguilla (c. 13 000 pop), Saint Martin (c. 36 000 pop), Sint Maarten (c. 37 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Cul de Sac (c. 8 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Marigot (c. 5 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from The Valley (c. 2 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km W of Marigot, Saint Martin. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.34 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.83° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km W of Marigot, Saint Martin Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-05-22 19:48:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-22 20:13:04 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 172 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7601 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2018142012 Id of event.
Event Code 2018142012 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018142012, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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