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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, Scotia Sea


Earthquake location -60.2725S, -47.6045WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Scotia Sea (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:59:18 / 3:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000nuix. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000nuix. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 27/11/24 / 2024-11-27 15:59:18 / November 27, 2024 @ 3:59 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -47.6045 West, latitude -60.2725 South, depth = 10 km.

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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: Scotia Sea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -47.6045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -60.2725° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Scotia Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-11-27 15:59:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-27 16:14:49 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 416 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us7000nuix Id of event.
Event Code 7000nuix An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nuix, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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