Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 96 km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (60 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50.6 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -25.717° West, latitude -56.4064° South, depth = 50.6 km. Unique identifier: us20004hdj. Ids that are associated to the event: us20004hdj. The temblor was picked up at 15:48:53 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/12/15 / 2015-12-15 17:48:53 / December 15, 2015 @ 5:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. 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 fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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 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: 96 km ENE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-25.717° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-56.4064° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	50.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	96km ENE 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	2015-12-15 17:48:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-15 18:10:24	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	385	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	17.033	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us20004hdj	Id of event.
Event Code	20004hdj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004hdj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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