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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Southern East Pacific Rise


Earthquake location -34.0134S, -109.3535WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Southern East Pacific Rise (0 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:55:15 / 8:55 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.91 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -109.3535° West, -34.0134° South, depth 14.91 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000431u. Unique identifier: us1000431u. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/15 / 2015-12-03 15:55:15 / December 3, 2015 @ 3:55 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: Southern East Pacific Rise. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -109.3535° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.0134° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southern East Pacific Rise Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-03 15:55:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-03 16:25:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -420 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 29.166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us1000431u Id of event.
Event Code 1000431u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000431u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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