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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Reykjanes Ridge


Earthquake location 57.2828S, -33.0403WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Reykjanes Ridge (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/11/18 / 2018-11-02 11:06:02 / November 2, 2018 @ 11:06 am. Id of earthquake: us2000i5tm. Event ids that are associated: us2000i5tm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -33.0403 West, latitude 57.2828 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:06:02 / 9:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Reykjanes Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -33.0403° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 57.2828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Reykjanes Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-11-02 11:06:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-02 11:29:13 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 432 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 7.442 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us2000i5tm Id of event.
Event Code 2000i5tm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i5tm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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