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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Blowing Point Village in Anguilla


Earthquake location 17.9576S, -63.0983WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Blowing Point Village in Anguilla on Wednesday. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:05:23 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -63.0983° West, 17.9576° North, depth 86.04 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/11/20 / 2020-11-11 22:05:23 / November 11, 2020 @ 10:05 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000cdke. Event ids that are associated: us7000cdke. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 86.04 km (53 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Monkey Hill, Trinity, Cayon. Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from Cul de Sac (c. 8 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Gustavia (c. 6 000 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Marigot (c. 5 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Saint Paul’s (c. 2 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Middle Island (c. 2 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Saint Barthelemy (c. 8 000 pop), Saint Kitts and Nevis (c. 51 000 pop), Saint Martin (c. 36 000 pop), Sint Maarten (c. 37 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 24 km S of Blowing Point Village, Anguilla. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.0983° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24 km S of Blowing Point Village, Anguilla Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-11-11 22:05:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-11 22:28:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 168 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 0.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us7000cdke Id of event.
Event Code 7000cdke An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cdke, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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