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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge


Earthquake location -31.1918S, -13.3419WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/06/24 / 2024-06-14 09:50:57 / June 14, 2024 @ 9:50 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -13.3419 West, latitude -31.1918 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:50:57 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000n8d4. Unique identifier: us6000n8d4. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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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: southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -13.3419° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.1918° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place southern 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 2024-06-14 09:50:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-11 11:57:20 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 91 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000n8d4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n8d4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n8d4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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