Moderate earthquake 5 mag, North Atlantic Ocean

Earthquake location 40.1777S, -14.7949W A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, North Atlantic Ocean (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -14.7949° West, 40.1777° North. Unique identifier: us2000i53n. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000i53n. The temblor was picked up at 03:27:40 / 3:27 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/18 / 2018-11-01 04:27:40 / November 1, 2018 @ 4:27 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: North Atlantic Ocean.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-14.7949° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.1777° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	North Atlantic Ocean	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-01 04:27:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-01 04:43:54	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	4.888	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.99 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	us2000i53n	Id of event.
Event Code	2000i53n	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000i53n,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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