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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, Carlsberg Ridge


Earthquake location 6.3909S, 60.6046WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes Carlsberg Ridge (0 miles) on Friday. Id of earthquake: us600043qu. Event ids that are associated: us600043qu. Global time and date of event 14/06/19 / 2019-06-14 01:35:08 / June 14, 2019 @ 1:35 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 60.6046 East, latitude 6.3909 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 05:35:08 / 5:35 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: Carlsberg Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 60.6046° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 6.3909° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Carlsberg Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-14 01:35:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-21 00:38:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 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 271 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 18.926 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 243 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 us600043qu Id of event.
Event Code 600043qu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600043qu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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