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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, South Sandwich Islands region


Earthquake location -55.6383S, -27.089WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported South Sandwich Islands region (0 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 05:53:52 / 5:53 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/24 / 2024-05-02 05:53:52 / May 2, 2024 @ 5:53 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -27.089° West, -55.6383° South, depth 34.778 km. Id of earthquake: us6000mvm5. Event ids that are associated: us6000mvm5. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.778 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: South Sandwich Islands region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.089° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.6383° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.778 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 2024-05-02 05:53:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 05:58:30 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 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 36 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us6000mvm5 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvm5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvm5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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