Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 269 km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (167 miles) on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 23/08/16 / 2016-08-23 02:52:05 / August 23, 2016 @ 2:52 am UTC/GMT. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:52:05 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006fxh. Unique identifier: us10006fxh. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -30.7081 West, latitude -55.2898 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 269 km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-30.7081° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-55.2898° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	269km NW 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	2016-08-23 02:52:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-08-23 03:06:51	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	416	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	3.495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 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	us10006fxh	Id of event.
Event Code	10006fxh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006fxh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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