Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag strikes near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands

A earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 142 km S of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (88 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 116 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 21:55:30 / 9:55 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -26.8 West, latitude -60.3 South, depth = 116 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/19 / 2019-08-27 23:55:30 / August 27, 2019 @ 11:55 pm. Unique identifier: at00pwx6gi. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19240050, at00pwx6gi.

There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. 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 three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 142 km S of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-26.8° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-60.3° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	116 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	142km S of Bristol Island, 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	2019-08-27 23:55:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-28 00:07:00	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	1	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	711	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	39	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	8.159398	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	2.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	158.399987328	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00pwx6gi	Id of event.
Event Code	00pwx6gi	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19240050,at00pwx6gi,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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