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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Central East Pacific Rise


Earthquake location -4.6659S, -105.8623WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) strikes Central East Pacific Rise (0 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -105.8623° West, -4.6659° South, depth 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003mbq. Id of event: us70003mbq. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:52:43 / 3:52 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 22:52:43 / May 16, 2019 @ 10:52 pm.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: Central East Pacific Rise.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -105.8623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -4.6659° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Central East Pacific Rise Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-05-16 22:52:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 23:12:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 518 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 16.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70003mbq Id of event.
Event Code 70003mbq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003mbq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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