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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 290 km NNE of Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands


Earthquake location -44.6226S, 39.558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 290 km NNE of Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands (180 miles) on Sunday. Event id: us10007dnz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dnz. Global time and date of event 20/11/16 / 2016-11-20 11:55:37 / November 20, 2016 @ 11:55 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.95 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:55:37 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 39.558° East, -44.6226° South, depth 14.95 km.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 290 km NNE of Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 39.558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -44.6226° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 290km NNE of Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-20 11:55:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-05 11:50:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 180 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 312 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 19.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 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 us10007dnz Id of event.
Event Code 10007dnz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dnz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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