Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag strikes near Africa

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Southwest of Africa (0 miles). The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:42:43 / 3:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 23/10/17 / 2017-10-23 14:42:43 / October 23, 2017 @ 2:42 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000avwk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000avwk. Exact location, longitude 16.8983° East, latitude -52.3682° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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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. 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: Southwest of Africa.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	16.8983° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-52.3682° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Southwest of Africa	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-10-23 14:42:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-10-23 15:01:48	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	60	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	20.179	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us1000avwk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000avwk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000avwk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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