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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Sandgerdi in Iceland


Earthquake location 63.8039S, -23.3081WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Sandgerdi in Iceland. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70006bqj. Ids that are associated to the event: us70006bqj. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:17:49 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/11/19 / 2019-11-16 12:17:49 / November 16, 2019 @ 12:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -23.3081 West, latitude 63.8039 North, depth = 10 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Iceland (c. 309 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Reykjavík (c. 118 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kópavogur (c. 31 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hafnarfjörður (c. 26 800 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Garðabær (c. 11 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Mosfellsbær (c. 8 700 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Akranes (c. 6 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mosfellsbær, Akranes, Reykjavík (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 39 km SW of Sandgerdi, Iceland.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -23.3081° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.8039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km SW of Sandgerdi, Iceland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-16 12:17:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-13 09:22:26 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 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 284 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 1.282 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 119 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 us70006bqj Id of event.
Event Code 70006bqj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006bqj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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