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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Posted by admin on June 28, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -55.469S, -27.8843WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 143 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (89 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/06/15 / 2015-06-04 07:32:28 / June 4, 2015 @ 7:32 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us20002pzr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002pzr. The temblor was reported at 05:32:28 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -27.8843 West, latitude -55.469 South, depth = 10 km.

Each 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 two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 143 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.8843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.469° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-04 07:32:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-28 13:14:55 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 312 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 5.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 126 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 us20002pzr Id of event.
Event Code 20002pzr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002pzr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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