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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 37 km S of George Town, Cayman Islands


Earthquake location 18.9472S, -81.3578WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from George Town in Cayman Islands. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60009eb9. Id of event: us60009eb9. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/04/20 / 2020-04-28 06:24:13 / April 28, 2020 @ 6:24 am. Exact location of earthquake, -81.3578° West, 18.9472° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 01:24:13 / 1:24 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Cayman Islands (c. 44 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from George Town (c. 29 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from West Bay (c. 11 300 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Bodden Town (c. 10 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was West Bay, Bodden Town, George Town (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 37 km S of George Town, Cayman Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -81.3578° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km S of George Town, 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 2020-04-28 06:24:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 22:30:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.5 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 260 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 4.094 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us60009eb9 Id of event.
Event Code 60009eb9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009eb9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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