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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near South Georgia Island region

Posted by admin on August 19, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -55.1548S, -31.6527WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, South Georgia Island region (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -31.6527 West, latitude -55.1548 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 13:00:06 / August 19, 2016 @ 1:00 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006f0t. Unique identifier: us10006f0t. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:00:06 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: South Georgia Island region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -31.6527° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.1548° 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 13:00:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-19 13:19:02 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 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 385 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 2.937 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us10006f0t Id of event.
Event Code 10006f0t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006f0t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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