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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, South Sandwich Islands region

Posted by admin on March 20, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -56.2428S, -27.2931WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, South Sandwich Islands region (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 12:04:21 / March 20, 2025 @ 12:04 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000q001. Event ids that are associated: us6000q001. The epicenter was at a depth of 111.393 km (69 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:04:21 / 12:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -27.2931 West, latitude -56.2428 South, depth = 111.393 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: South Sandwich Islands region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -27.2931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.2428° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.393 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 2025-03-20 12:04:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-20 12:25:28 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 432 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.612 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us6000q001 Id of event.
Event Code 6000q001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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