Earthquake: M 4.8 quake strikes near Ribeira Grande in Portugal

A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (mg/mb) has occurred on Friday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Ribeira Grande in Portugal. The temblor was reported at 20:14:44 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time of event 24/04/15 / 2015-04-24 22:14:44 / April 24, 2015 @ 10:14 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -29.1142 West, latitude 38.6562 North, depth 10 km, unique identifier, us2000290j.

Close countries, Portugal (c. 10 676 000 pop). The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Horta (c. 6 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Madalena (c. 6 100 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Ribeira Grande (c. 5 200 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Madalena, Horta, Ribeira Grande.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-29.1142° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	38.6562° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	39km WNW of Ribeira Grande, Portugal	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-04-24 22:14:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-04-24 22:39:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-120	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	354	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	0.681	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	117	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	us2000290j	Id of event.
Event Code	2000290j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000290j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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