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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Mucurapo in Trinidad and Tobago

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Mucurapo in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us70007irk. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007irk. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 21:24:55 / February 4, 2020 @ 9:24 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:54:55 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -61.8787 West, latitude 10.6709 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Trinidad and Tobago (c. 1 229 000 pop), Venezuela (c. 27 223 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Laventille (c. 157 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Chaguanas (c. 67 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Mon Repos (c. 56 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from San Fernando (c. 55 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Port-of-Spain (c. 49 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Güiria (c. 40 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Rio Claro, Sangre Grande, Siparia (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km W of Mucurapo, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-61.8787° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.6709° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	37km W of Mucurapo, Trinidad and Tobago	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-04 21:24:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-05 00:01:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-270	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	234	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	1.469	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	156	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	us70007irk	Id of event.
Event Code	70007irk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007irk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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