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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Southwest Indian Ridge


Earthquake location -29.0627S, 61.1153WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, Southwest Indian Ridge (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.48 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/16 / 2016-07-17 11:14:53 / July 17, 2016 @ 11:14 am. Exact location of earthquake, 61.1153° East, -29.0627° South, depth 16.48 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20006gp7. Id of event: us20006gp7. The temblor was reported at 15:14:53 / 3:14 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Southwest Indian Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 61.1153° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.0627° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Southwest Indian Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-07-17 11:14:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-30 12:15:51 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 354 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 14.766 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us20006gp7 Id of event.
Event Code 20006gp7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gp7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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