Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag was detected near Beauséjour in Guadeloupe

A earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 169 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe (105 miles). Global time and date of event 27/10/25 / 2025-10-27 12:38:37 / October 27, 2025 @ 12:38 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 6.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:38:37 / 12:38 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: at00t4sj4k, pt25300000. Unique identifier: at00t4sj4k. Exact location of earthquake, -59.5° West, 16.5° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Beauséjour in Guadeloupe (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 169 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-59.5° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	16.5° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	169 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-27 12:38:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-27 12:55:20	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	11	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	1	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	716	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	35	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.772376	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00t4sj4k	Id of event.
Event Code	00t4sj4k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00t4sj4k,pt25300000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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