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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Owen Fracture Zone region


Earthquake location 14.2897S, 56.6289WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Owen Fracture Zone region (0 miles). Unique identifier: us100073ky. Ids that are associated to the event: us100073ky. The temblor was reported at 03:29:33 / 3:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/16 / 2016-11-01 23:29:33 / November 1, 2016 @ 11:29 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 56.6289 East, latitude 14.2897 North, depth = 10 km.

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. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Owen Fracture Zone region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 56.6289° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 14.2897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Owen Fracture Zone region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-01 23:29:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-02 00:06:40 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 13.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us100073ky Id of event.
Event Code 100073ky An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100073ky, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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