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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near North Atlantic Ocean


Earthquake location 15.5891S, -49.985WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported North Atlantic Ocean (0 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 14:17:30 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -49.985° West, latitude 15.5891° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/07/19 / 2019-07-11 17:17:30 / July 11, 2019 @ 5:17 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70004p46. Event ids that are associated: us70004p46.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: North Atlantic Ocean. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -49.985° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 15.5891° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place North Atlantic Ocean Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-11 17:17:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-06 20:38:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -180 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 400 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 9.59 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70004p46 Id of event.
Event Code 70004p46 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004p46, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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