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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Santa Cruz das Flores in Portugal


Earthquake location 41.3247S, -29.2708WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 260 km NE of Santa Cruz das Flores, Portugal (162 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -29.2708 West, latitude 41.3247 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:56:12 / 3:56 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000jirs. Unique identifier: us2000jirs. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 05:56:12 / February 16, 2019 @ 5:56 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight 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. 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: 260 km NE of Santa Cruz das Flores, Portugal.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -29.2708° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.3247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 260km NE of Santa Cruz das Flores, Portugal Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-16 05:56:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-16 06:14:28 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 340 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 4.585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us2000jirs Id of event.
Event Code 2000jirs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jirs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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