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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Posted by admin on August 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 8.5114S, -39.3402WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/08/19 / 2019-08-25 18:46:50 / August 25, 2019 @ 6:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -39.3402° West, latitude 8.5114° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 15:46:50 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70005816. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005816. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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 two 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate 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: Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -39.3402° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 8.5114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-08-25 18:46:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-25 19:03:21 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 385 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 21.935 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us70005816 Id of event.
Event Code 70005816 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005816, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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