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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 27 km W of Sandgerdi, Iceland


Earthquake location 63.9922S, -23.2531WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Sandgerdi in Iceland on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -23.2531 West, latitude 63.9922 North, depth = 10 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:23:58 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 02:23:58 / July 1, 2015 @ 2:23 am. Event id: us10002mq6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10002mq6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Reykjavík (c. 118 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Kópavogur (c. 31 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Hafnarfjörður (c. 26 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Garðabær (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Mosfellsbær (c. 8 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Akranes (c. 6 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Borgarnes, Mosfellsbær, Reykjavík. Country/countries that might be effected, Iceland (c. 309 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km W of Sandgerdi, Iceland. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -23.2531° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 63.9922° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km W of Sandgerdi, Iceland Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-01 02:23:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 03:13:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -120 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 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 us10002mq6 Id of event.
Event Code 10002mq6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002mq6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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