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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Beauséjour in Guadeloupe

Posted by admin on October 27, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.5587S, -59.5632WA earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 163 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe (101 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/10/25 / 2025-10-27 12:54:59 / October 27, 2025 @ 12:54 pm. Exact location, longitude -59.5632° West, latitude 16.5587° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rjqj. Id of event: us6000rjqj. The 6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:54:59 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 163 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -59.5632° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.5587° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 163 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 12:54:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-27 13:14:11 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 554 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 119 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 28 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 us6000rjqj Id of event.
Event Code 6000rjqj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rjqj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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