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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -58.6118S, -26.1776WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 50 km NNE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (31 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 80.41 km (50 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:14:24 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -26.1776 West, latitude -58.6118 South, depth = 80.41 km. Global time and date of event 22/03/17 / 2017-03-22 11:14:24 / March 22, 2017 @ 11:14 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20008vm8. Ids that are associated to the event: us20008vm8.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 50 km NNE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -26.1776° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -58.6118° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NNE of Bristol Island, 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 2017-03-22 11:14:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-19 06:58:33 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 326 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 7.171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us20008vm8 Id of event.
Event Code 20008vm8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008vm8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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