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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Sainte-Marie in Martinique


Earthquake location 15.1151S, -60.3974WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Sainte-Marie in Martinique. The temblor was picked up at 03:54:10 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -60.3974° West, 15.1151° North, depth 5.77 km. Id of earthquake: us70006xq9. Event ids that are associated: us70006xq9. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/12/19 / 2019-12-26 07:54:10 / December 26, 2019 @ 7:54 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5.77 km (4 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Fort-de-France, Sainte-Luce, Rivière-Pilote (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Le François (c. 19 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Ducos (c. 17 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Martinique (c. 433 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 73 km ENE of Sainte-Marie, Martinique. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.3974° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.1151° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km ENE of Sainte-Marie, Martinique Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-12-26 07:54:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-16 07:25:28 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 271 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 0.789 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us70006xq9 Id of event.
Event Code 70006xq9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006xq9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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