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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Sandgerdi in Iceland


Earthquake location 63.8806S, -23.0399WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Sandgerdi in Iceland. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 02:25:42 / July 1, 2015 @ 2:25 am. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:25:42 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -23.0399° West, 63.8806° North, depth 10 km. Event id: us10002mpu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mpu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Reykjavík (c. 118 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Kópavogur (c. 31 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Hafnarfjörður (c. 26 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Garðabær (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mosfellsbær (c. 8 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Akranes (c. 6 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Borgarnes (c. 1 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Borgarnes, Mosfellsbær, Akranes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Iceland (c. 309 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 23 km SW of Sandgerdi, Iceland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -23.0399° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.8806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km SW of Sandgerdi, Iceland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-01 02:25:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 02:41:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 0 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 1.146 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us10002mpu Id of event.
Event Code 10002mpu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mpu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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