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Strong earthquake, 6 mag was detected near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -56.2647S, -27.3976WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 49 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003a91. Unique identifier: us70003a91. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/19 / 2019-04-22 14:49:07 / April 22, 2019 @ 2:49 pm. The 6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:49:07 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 95.76 km, -27.3976° West, -56.2647° South. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 95.76 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.3976° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.2647° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NNW 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 2019-04-22 14:49:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-22 15:07:13 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 554 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 5.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 36 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 us70003a91 Id of event.
Event Code 70003a91 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003a91, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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