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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -55.4192S, -27.3435WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 142 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (88 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/06/16 / 2016-06-05 12:11:59 / June 5, 2016 @ 12:11 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:11:59 / 10:11 am (local time epicenter). 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 36.09 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us200063jl. Ids that are associated to the event: us200063jl. Exact location of event, depth 36.09 km, -27.3435° West, -55.4192° South.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 142 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.3435° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.4192° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 142km 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 2016-06-05 12:11:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-24 08:14:08 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 326 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 5.404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us200063jl Id of event.
Event Code 200063jl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200063jl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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