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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Visokoi Island in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -56.0443S, -27.7436WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 80 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (50 miles). Unique identifier: us600044bz. Ids that are associated to the event: us600044bz. Exact location of event, longitude -27.7436 West, latitude -56.0443 South, depth = 128.44 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128.44 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:15:54 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/06/19 / 2019-06-16 20:15:54 / June 16, 2019 @ 8:15 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 80 km NNW of Visokoi Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.7436° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.0443° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 2019-06-16 20:15:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-15 18:46:21 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 326 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 5.314 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 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 us600044bz Id of event.
Event Code 600044bz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600044bz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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