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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -55.6396S, -28.4678WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 141 km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (88 miles) on Sunday. Global time and date of event 16/09/18 / 2018-09-16 17:03:10 / September 16, 2018 @ 5:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -28.4678 West, latitude -55.6396 South, depth = 42.57 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.57 km (26 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000hicn. Unique identifier: us2000hicn. The temblor was detected at 15:03:10 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 141 km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -28.4678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.6396° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km NW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-09-16 17:03:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-15 14:53:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -120 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 298 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 4.817 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us2000hicn Id of event.
Event Code 2000hicn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hicn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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