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Major earthquake: M7.3 quake has struck near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Posted by admin on May 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -56.2571S, -27.0364WA major earthquake magnitude 7.3 (ml/mb) strikes 50 km NNE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (31 miles) on Saturday. The 7.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:47:01 / 7:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -27.0364 West, latitude -56.2571 South, depth = 93.17 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93.17 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20005ysu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o7vsif, us20005ysu. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 09:47:01 / May 28, 2016 @ 9:47 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world.

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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: 50 km NNE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.0364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.2571° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NNE 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 2016-05-28 09:47:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 10:05:49 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 6.22 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 1 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 820 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 ,at,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 5.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 27 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 us20005ysu Id of event.
Event Code 20005ysu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o7vsif,us20005ysu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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