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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Posted by admin on March 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -56.3566S, -27.2826WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 38 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (24 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 08:52:00 / 8:52 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005aq1. Id of event: us20005aq1. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -27.2826 West, latitude -56.3566 South, depth = 102.08 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 10:52:00 / March 18, 2016 @ 10:52 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 102.08 km (63 miles).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 38 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.2826° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.3566° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km N 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 2016-03-18 10:52:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 11:13:30 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 432 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 5.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us20005aq1 Id of event.
Event Code 20005aq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005aq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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