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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -58.9338S, -25.608WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 53 km ENE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (33 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was picked up at 10:31:23 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/12/18 / 2018-12-23 12:31:23 / December 23, 2018 @ 12:31 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45.25 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j2ww. Unique identifier: us2000j2ww. Exact location of event, longitude -25.608 West, latitude -58.9338 South, depth = 45.25 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 53 km ENE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -25.608° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -58.9338° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km ENE 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 2018-12-23 12:31:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 10:22:30 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 312 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 7.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us2000j2ww Id of event.
Event Code 2000j2ww An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j2ww, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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