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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Carlsberg Ridge


Earthquake location 10.3907S, 56.9304WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Carlsberg Ridge (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 56.9304° East, 10.3907° North, depth 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/15 / 2015-09-13 14:08:20 / September 13, 2015 @ 2:08 pm. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:08:20 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us20003j5s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003j5s. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: Carlsberg Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.9304° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.3907° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Carlsberg Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-09-13 14:08:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 15:55:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 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 340 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 3.577 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us20003j5s Id of event.
Event Code 20003j5s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003j5s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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