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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Azores Islands region

Posted by admin on January 9, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.7771S, -33.7928WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported Azores Islands region (0 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/01/20 / 2020-01-09 12:14:32 / January 9, 2020 @ 12:14 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -33.7928 West, latitude 36.7771 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:14:32 / 10:14 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70006wws. Event ids that are associated: us70006wws.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -33.7928° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.7771° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Azores Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-09 12:14:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-09 12:38:58 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 369 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 23.27 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us70006wws Id of event.
Event Code 70006wws An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006wws, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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