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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Southern East Pacific Rise

Posted by admin on June 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -55.414S, -124.7894WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Southern East Pacific Rise (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -124.7894° West, -55.414° South, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/06/17 / 2017-06-15 11:42:15 / June 15, 2017 @ 11:42 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009msm. Id of event: us20009msm. The 5.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:42:15 / 3:42 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Southern East Pacific Rise.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -124.7894° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.414° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southern East Pacific Rise Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-06-15 11:42:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-15 17:45:29 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 0 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 518 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 30.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20009msm Id of event.
Event Code 20009msm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009msm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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