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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 66 km ESE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -56.9433S, -26.2112WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 66 km ESE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (41 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.41 km (49 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:20:43 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000dpd3. Unique identifier: us1000dpd3. Exact location of earthquake, -26.2112° West, -56.9433° South, depth 79.41 km. Global time and date of event 17/04/18 / 2018-04-17 14:20:43 / April 17, 2018 @ 2:20 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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: 66 km ESE of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -26.2112° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.9433° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km ESE 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 2018-04-17 14:20:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 13:36:04 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 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 298 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 6.402 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 127 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 us1000dpd3 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dpd3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dpd3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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