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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Carlsberg Ridge


Earthquake location 4.3123S, 64.1287WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Carlsberg Ridge (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/10/19 / 2019-10-13 23:41:17 / October 13, 2019 @ 11:41 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us70005wvz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005wvz. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 64.1287 East, latitude 4.3123 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 03:41:17 / 3:41 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Carlsberg Ridge.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 64.1287° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.3123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2019-10-13 23:41:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-22 03:44:36 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 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 284 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 9.336 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us70005wvz Id of event.
Event Code 70005wvz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005wvz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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