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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 110 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -55.7108S, -27.206WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 110 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (68 miles). Event id: us100069s6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100069s6. Exact location of earthquake, -27.206° West, -55.7108° South, depth 13.52 km. Global time and date of event 03/08/16 / 2016-08-03 15:15:18 / August 3, 2016 @ 3:15 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:15:18 / 1:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.52 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 110 km N of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.7108° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km 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 2016-08-03 15:15:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-03 15:46:37 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 5.531 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 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 us100069s6 Id of event.
Event Code 100069s6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100069s6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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