Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Africa

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Southwest of Africa (0 miles). Unique identifier: us10004xmh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004xmh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:25:40 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 18.8566° East, -52.64° South, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 23:25:40 / March 14, 2016 @ 11:25 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: Southwest of Africa.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	18.8566° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-52.64° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Southwest of Africa	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-14 23:25:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-14 23:46:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	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	0	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	518	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	20.298	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.73 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	28	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwp	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10004xmh	Id of event.
Event Code	10004xmh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10004xmh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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