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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Georgetown in Saint Helena


Earthquake location -7.546S, -13.5792WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Georgetown in Saint Helena on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us700033ew. Id of event: us700033ew. The temblor was detected at 23:47:40 / 11:47 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/04/19 / 2019-04-10 00:47:40 / April 10, 2019 @ 12:47 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -13.5792° West, -7.546° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Saint Helena (c. 7 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Georgetown. The epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Georgetown (c. 500 pop).

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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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. 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: 101 km ENE of Georgetown, Saint Helena.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -13.5792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.546° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km ENE of Georgetown, Saint Helena Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-10 00:47:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-10 02:02:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -60 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 369 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 0.864 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us700033ew Id of event.
Event Code 700033ew An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700033ew, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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