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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Georgetown in Saint Helena

Posted by admin on June 10, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.4573S, -13.58WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Georgetown in Saint Helena. Event id: us200063gd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200063gd. Global time and date of event 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 09:26:53 / June 10, 2016 @ 9:26 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -13.58° West, -7.4573° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was reported at 08:26:53 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Saint Helena (c. 7 000 pop). The epicenter was 106 km (66 miles) from Georgetown (c. 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Georgetown.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 106 km ENE of Georgetown, Saint Helena.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -13.58° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.4573° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km ENE of Georgetown, Saint Helena Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-10 09:26:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 09:52:34 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 3.15 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 465 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 0.906 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 24 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 us200063gd Id of event.
Event Code 200063gd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063gd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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