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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 53 km SE of East End, Cayman Islands


Earthquake location 18.9175S, -80.8039WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from East End in Cayman Islands. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:18:08 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us60007int. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007int. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.8039 West, latitude 18.9175 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/01/20 / 2020-01-29 01:18:08 / January 29, 2020 @ 1:18 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 53 km SE of East End, Cayman Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.8039° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km SE of East End, Cayman Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-29 01:18:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-29 01:34:52 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 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 284 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 3.176 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us60007int Id of event.
Event Code 60007int An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007int, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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