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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Buff Bay in Jamaica


Earthquake location 18.2034S, -76.765WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Buff Bay in Jamaica. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 12:57:14 / November 26, 2019 @ 12:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -76.765 West, latitude 18.2034 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us70006dxz. Event ids that are associated: us70006dxz. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:57:14 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Kingston (c. 937 700 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from New Kingston (c. 584 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Spanish Town (c. 145 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Portmore (c. 102 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from May Pen (c. 44 800 pop). Close country/countries, Jamaica (c. 2 847 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porus, Lionel Town, Runaway Bay (min 5000 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 11 km WSW of Buff Bay, Jamaica.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -76.765° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2034° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km WSW of Buff Bay, Jamaica Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-26 12:57:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-27 22:44:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 148 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 0.731 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 us70006dxz Id of event.
Event Code 70006dxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006dxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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