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Moderate earthquake: M5.5 quake has struck near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Posted by admin on May 11, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -56.6107S, -25.9148WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 79 km E of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (49 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -25.9148° West, -56.6107° South, depth 35 km. Unique identifier: us10008rhm. Ids that are associated to the event: us10008rhm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:57:36 / 1:57 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/17 / 2017-05-11 15:57:36 / May 11, 2017 @ 3:57 pm.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km E of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -25.9148° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.6107° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km E 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 2017-05-11 15:57:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-11 16:17:56 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 3.2 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 465 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 6.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us10008rhm Id of event.
Event Code 10008rhm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008rhm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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