Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 16 km NNW of Ti Port-de-Paix, Haiti

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Ti Port-de-Paix in Haiti. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -72.9122 West, latitude 20.0598 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 15:00:17 / 3:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000h8hi. Unique identifier: us1000h8hi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 20:00:17 / October 7, 2018 @ 8:00 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trou du Nord, Saint-Raphaël, Dessalines. Close country/countries that might be effected, Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop). The epicenter was 16 km (10 miles) from Port-de-Paix (c. 250 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Okap (c. 134 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Gonayiv (c. 85 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Saint-Raphaël (c. 37 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Ti Port-de-Paix (c. 34 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Lenbe (c. 32 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Dessalines (c. 12 300 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-72.9122° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	20.0598° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	16km NNW of Ti Port-de-Paix, Haiti	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-10-07 20:00:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-10-07 20:18:35	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-300	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	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	418	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	1.635	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.67 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000h8hi	Id of event.
Event Code	1000h8hi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000h8hi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-72.9122° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

20.0598° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

16km NNW of Ti Port-de-Paix, Haiti

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2018-10-07 20:00:17

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-10-07 20:18:35

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-300

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.1

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

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

418

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

1.635

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.67 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

mww

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us1000h8hi

Id of event.

Event Code

1000h8hi

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000h8hi,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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