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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -59.1445S, -26.2563WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 19 km SE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (12 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 130.28 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us70005rcr. Event ids that are associated: us70005rcr. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:13:40 / 3:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -26.2563° West, latitude -59.1445° South, depth = 130.28 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 17:13:40 / October 6, 2019 @ 5:13 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 19 km SE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -26.2563° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -59.1445° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 130.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SE 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 2019-10-06 17:13:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-06 17:32:47 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 385 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 7.441 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us70005rcr Id of event.
Event Code 70005rcr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005rcr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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