Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 23/10/20 / 2020-10-23 00:33:35 / October 23, 2020 @ 12:33 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -45.8636 West, latitude 19.98 North, depth = 10 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:33:35 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000cbtq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000cbtq.

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 four 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. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-45.8636° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.98° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	northern 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	2020-10-23 00:33:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-23 00:52:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	432	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	15.342	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000cbtq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000cbtq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000cbtq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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