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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near South Sandwich Islands region

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -57.5798S, -26.0694WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, South Sandwich Islands region (0 miles). Exact location of event, depth 89.8 km, -26.0694° West, -57.5798° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000mwwk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mwwk. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89.8 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/05/24 / 2024-05-07 07:55:58 / May 7, 2024 @ 7:55 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:55:58 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -26.0694° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -57.5798° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South Sandwich 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 2024-05-07 07:55:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-07 08:13:08 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 400 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 6.72 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us6000mwwk Id of event.
Event Code 6000mwwk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mwwk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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