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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Beauséjour in Guadeloupe

Posted by admin on November 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.6079S, -59.4498WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 176 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe (109 miles) on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/10/25 / 2025-10-27 18:30:24 / October 27, 2025 @ 6:30 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:30:24 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000rntl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rntl. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -59.4498 West, latitude 16.6079 North, depth = 10 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 176 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -59.4498° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.6079° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176 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 18:30:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-17 19:37:33 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 271 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.578 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 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 us6000rntl Id of event.
Event Code 6000rntl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rntl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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