Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Pacific-Antarctic Ridge

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (0 miles). Event id: us1000312m. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000312m. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/07/15 / 2015-07-21 23:13:29 / July 21, 2015 @ 11:13 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.71 km (9 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -127.312 West, latitude -55.0281 South, depth = 14.71 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:13:29 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: Pacific-Antarctic Ridge.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-127.312° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-55.0281° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Pacific-Antarctic Ridge	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-07-21 23:13:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-11 22:28:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-480	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	340	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	32.949	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us1000312m	Id of event.
Event Code	1000312m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000312m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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