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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Georgetown in Saint Helena

Posted by admin on January 25, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.1218S, -13.6908WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Georgetown in Saint Helena. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cp7j. Id of event: us2000cp7j. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -13.6908 West, latitude -8.1218 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/01/18 / 2018-01-25 10:25:42 / January 25, 2018 @ 10:25 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:25:42 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Georgetown. Nearby country/countries, Saint Helena (c. 7 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Georgetown (c. 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 82 km ESE of Georgetown, Saint Helena. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -13.6908° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.1218° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km ESE of Georgetown, Saint Helena Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-01-25 10:25:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-25 10:47:42 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 385 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 0.688 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 40 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 us2000cp7j Id of event.
Event Code 2000cp7j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cp7j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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