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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near East End in Cayman Islands


Earthquake location 18.9865S, -80.9146WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes 40 kilometers (25 miles) from East End in Cayman Islands on Tuesday. Unique identifier: us70007k4v. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007k4v. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -80.9146° West, 18.9865° North, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 16:58:57 / 4:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 28/01/20 / 2020-01-28 21:58:57 / January 28, 2020 @ 9:58 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, George Town, Bodden Town (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 59 km (36 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate 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: 40 km SSE of East End, Cayman Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.9146° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9865° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km SSE 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 2020-01-28 21:58:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-10 05:04:07 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 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.371 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 3.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us70007k4v Id of event.
Event Code 70007k4v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007k4v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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