Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag strikes near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands

A earthquake with magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 41 km E of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00pi93o4. Unique identifier: at00pi93o4. The 6.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:02:24 / 6:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -25.8 West, latitude -59 South, depth = 33 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/11/18 / 2018-11-15 20:02:24 / November 15, 2018 @ 8:02 pm.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 41 km E of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-25.8° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-59° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km E of Bristol Island, 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	2018-11-15 20:02:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-15 20:15:41	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	1	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	732	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	48	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	82.799993376001	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00pi93o4	Id of event.
Event Code	00pi93o4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00pi93o4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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