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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near South Sandwich Islands region

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Earthquake location -58.4691S, -24.6387WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, South Sandwich Islands region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nztr. Id of event: us7000nztr. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/24 / 2024-12-05 12:19:57 / December 5, 2024 @ 12:19 pm. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:19:57 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.909 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -24.6387 West, latitude -58.4691 South, depth = 17.909 km.

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 four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: South Sandwich Islands region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -24.6387° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -58.4691° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.909 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South Sandwich Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-05 12:19:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-02 07:13:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 7.797 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 110 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 us7000nztr Id of event.
Event Code 7000nztr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nztr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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