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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 189 km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -60.6386S, -25.4234WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 189 km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (117 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -25.4234 West, latitude -60.6386 South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70007q6a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007q6a. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:26:00 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 18:26:00 / February 8, 2020 @ 6:26 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 189 km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -25.4234° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -60.6386° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-02-08 18:26:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-07 21:30:14 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 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 8.717 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us70007q6a Id of event.
Event Code 70007q6a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007q6a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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