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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Drake Passage


Earthquake location -59.1728S, -60.6396WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Drake Passage (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -60.6396° West, -59.1728° South, depth 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:37:42 / 7:37 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/24 / 2024-05-06 07:37:42 / May 6, 2024 @ 7:37 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mwn4. Event ids that are associated: us6000mwn4. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: Drake Passage.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -60.6396° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -59.1728° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Drake Passage Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-05-06 07:37:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-06 15:06:45 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 326 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.846 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us6000mwn4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mwn4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mwn4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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