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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 209 km ESE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -57.1491S, -23.8509WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 209 km ESE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (130 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.7 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:56 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 31.7 km, -23.8509° West, -57.1491° South. Unique identifier: us10003yqu. Ids that are associated to the event: us10003yqu. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/11/15 / 2015-11-12 22:30:56 / November 12, 2015 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twelve 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 209 km ESE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -23.8509° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -57.1491° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 209km ESE 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 2015-11-12 22:30:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-01 03:32:18 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 7.692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us10003yqu Id of event.
Event Code 10003yqu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003yqu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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