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Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Carlsberg Ridge


Earthquake location 10.9006S, 57.2396WA earthquake with magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) was reported Carlsberg Ridge (0 miles) on Monday. Unique identifier: us70003e0j. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003e0j. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/19 / 2019-04-29 14:19:52 / April 29, 2019 @ 2:19 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 57.2396 East, latitude 10.9006 North, depth = 8.29 km. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:19:52 / 6:19 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.29 km (5 miles).

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 one and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: Carlsberg Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 57.2396° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 10.9006° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Carlsberg Ridge Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-29 14:19:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-29 14:39:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 240 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 591 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 14.004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us70003e0j Id of event.
Event Code 70003e0j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003e0j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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