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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 51 km SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands


Earthquake location -51.9771S, -57.2475WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Stanley in Falkland Islands. The temblor was picked up at 19:08:21 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60007fg1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007fg1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -57.2475° West, latitude -51.9771° South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/01/20 / 2020-01-24 23:08:21 / January 24, 2020 @ 11:08 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Falkland Islands (c. 3 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Stanley. The epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from Stanley (c. 2 200 pop).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -57.2475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -51.9771° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km SE of Stanley, Falkland Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-24 23:08:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-03 03:17:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 211 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 0.589 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007fg1 Id of event.
Event Code 60007fg1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007fg1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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