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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 131 km NNE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands

Posted by admin on June 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -58.007S, -25.3931WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 131 km NNE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (81 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -25.3931° West, -58.007° South, depth 35 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:21:37 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us600045dg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600045dg. Global time and date of event 24/06/19 / 2019-06-24 19:21:37 / June 24, 2019 @ 7:21 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 131 km NNE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -25.3931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -58.007° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km NNE 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 2019-06-24 19:21:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-24 19:39:30 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 3.315 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 465 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 16.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us600045dg Id of event.
Event Code 600045dg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600045dg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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