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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Upernavik in Greenland

Posted by admin on April 21, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 72.3128S, -53.2536WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 110 km ESE of Upernavik, Greenland (68 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.63 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -53.2536 West, latitude 72.3128 North, depth = 15.63 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:06:10 / 4:06 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000dpu6. Event ids that are associated: us1000dpu6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/03/18 / 2018-03-27 07:06:10 / March 27, 2018 @ 7:06 am.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 110 km ESE of Upernavik, Greenland.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -53.2536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 72.3128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km ESE of Upernavik, Greenland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-27 07:06:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-21 12:11:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 259 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 2.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us1000dpu6 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dpu6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dpu6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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