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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Posted by admin on July 13, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -55.9859S, -28.3503WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 106 km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (66 miles). Event id: us20002x9h. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002x9h. The temblor was detected at 18:16:08 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137.68 km (86 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -28.3503 West, latitude -55.9859 South, depth = 137.68 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/07/15 / 2015-07-13 20:16:08 / July 13, 2015 @ 8:16 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 106 km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -28.3503° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.9859° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km NW 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 2015-07-13 20:16:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-13 21:05:41 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 432 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 4.971 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us20002x9h Id of event.
Event Code 20002x9h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002x9h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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