A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, South Georgia Island region (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/16 / 2016-08-19 21:11:09 / August 19, 2016 @ 9:11 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006ghc. Id of event: us10006ghc. The temblor was picked up at 19:11:09 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -32.0923 West, latitude -55.2344 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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