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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near western Indian-Antarctic Ridge

Posted by admin on October 31, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -48.9809S, 121.1551WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, western Indian-Antarctic Ridge (0 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:44:44 / 5:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 31/10/24 / 2024-10-31 05:44:44 / October 31, 2024 @ 5:44 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000np5g. Unique identifier: us7000np5g. Exact location of event, longitude 121.1551 East, latitude -48.9809 South, depth = 11.149 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.149 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each 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 one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: western Indian-Antarctic Ridge.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1551° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -48.9809° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.149 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place western Indian-Antarctic Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-31 05:44:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-31 05:54:48 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 automatic 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 16.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us7000np5g Id of event.
Event Code 7000np5g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000np5g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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