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Strong earthquake, 6.1 mag strikes near Bristol Island in South Sandwich Islands


Earthquake location -60.0165S, -25.4811WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 124 km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands (77 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:32:57 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.12 km (10 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/02/20 / 2020-02-08 14:32:57 / February 8, 2020 @ 2:32 pm. Event id: us70007lik. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007lik. Exact location of event, depth 16.12 km, -25.4811° West, -60.0165° South.

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-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. 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: 124 km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -25.4811° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -60.0165° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 124km SSE 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 2020-02-08 14:32:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-08 14:54:55 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 3.51 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 572 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 25.996 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us70007lik Id of event.
Event Code 70007lik An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007lik, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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