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Major earthquake, 7.4 mag was detected near South Georgia Island region


Earthquake location -55.3394S, -31.9394WA major earthquake magnitude 7.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, South Georgia Island region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 07:32:22 / August 19, 2016 @ 7:32 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -31.9394 West, latitude -55.3394 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 05:32:22 / 5:32 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10006exl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006exl.

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 occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: South Georgia Island region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -31.9394° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.3394° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South Georgia Island region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-19 07:32:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-19 08:05:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 0 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 842 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 2.836 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 23 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 us10006exl Id of event.
Event Code 10006exl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006exl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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