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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Pacific-Antarctic Ridge


Earthquake location -56.9711S, -141.4094WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (0 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -141.4094° West, -56.9711° South. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:04:07 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/17 / 2017-07-18 13:04:07 / July 18, 2017 @ 1:04 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us20009y4v. Ids that are associated to the event: us20009y4v.

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -141.4094° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.9711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Pacific-Antarctic Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-18 13:04:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-20 18:50:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 32.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20009y4v Id of event.
Event Code 20009y4v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009y4v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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