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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge


Earthquake location 35.1999S, -35.2332WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (0 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/16 / 2016-07-15 18:02:48 / July 15, 2016 @ 6:02 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.7 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us20006f14. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006f14. The temblor was picked up at 16:02:48 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -35.2332 West, latitude 35.1999 North, depth = 8.7 km.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -35.2332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 35.1999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-15 18:02:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-15 18:21:26 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 400 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 6.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us20006f14 Id of event.
Event Code 20006f14 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006f14, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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