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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Southeast Indian Ridge

Posted by admin on December 31, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -42.0558S, 84.6509WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Southeast Indian Ridge (0 miles). 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 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:43:14 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/12/15 / 2015-12-26 04:43:14 / December 26, 2015 @ 4:43 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004ail, gcmt20151226044320. Id of event: us10004ail. Exact location of earthquake, 84.6509° East, -42.0558° South, depth 10 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 84.6509° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.0558° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southeast Indian Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-26 04:43:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-31 02:06:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 360 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 449 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,gcmt, 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 44.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004ail Id of event.
Event Code 10004ail An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004ail,gcmt20151226044320, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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