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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge


Earthquake location -49.6365S, 126.2174WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge (0 miles). Global time and date of event 02/12/16 / 2016-12-02 00:14:39 / December 2, 2016 @ 12:14 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10007euh. Event ids that are associated: us10007euh. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10.23 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 126.2174 East, latitude -49.6365 South, depth = 10.23 km. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:14:39 / 8:14 am (local time epicenter).

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.2174° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -49.6365° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-02 00:14:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-05 23:54:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 449 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 17.983 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 92 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwc The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007euh Id of event.
Event Code 10007euh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007euh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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