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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -56.1672S, -27.6261WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 64 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (40 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 16:44:39 / 4:44 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/07/15 / 2015-07-26 18:44:39 / July 26, 2015 @ 6:44 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20003086. Unique identifier: us20003086. Exact location, longitude -27.6261° West, latitude -56.1672° South, depth = 109.19 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.19 km (68 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 64 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.6261° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.1672° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 109.19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-26 18:44:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-26 20:30:49 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 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 us20003086 Id of event.
Event Code 20003086 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003086, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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