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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Belle-Anse in Haiti


Earthquake location 18.071S, -72.1276WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Belle-Anse in Haiti on Sunday. Exact location, longitude -72.1276° West, latitude 18.071° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 05:06:37 / 5:06 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/02/21 / 2021-02-07 05:06:37 / February 7, 2021 @ 5:06 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000df9x. Id of event: us6000df9x.

Nearby country/countries, Haiti (c. 9 649 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Port-au-Prince (c. 1 234 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Carrefour (c. 442 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Delmas 73 (c. 382 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Pétionville (c. 283 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Croix des Bouquets (c. 229 100 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Jacmel (c. 138 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mirebalais, Villa Jaragua, Grangwav (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 19 km SSW of Belle-Anse, Haiti. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -72.1276° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.071° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km SSW of Belle-Anse, Haiti Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-02-07 05:06:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-07 07:03:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 199 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 1.206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000df9x Id of event.
Event Code 6000df9x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000df9x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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