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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near South Sandwich Islands region

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Earthquake location -55.6872S, -26.3967WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported South Sandwich Islands region (0 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.141 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rp6y. Unique identifier: us6000rp6y. The temblor was detected at 13:10:20 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -26.3967 West, latitude -55.6872 South, depth = 47.141 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/25 / 2025-10-30 13:10:20 / October 30, 2025 @ 1:10 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -26.3967° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -55.6872° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.141 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 2025-10-30 13:10:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-21 17:27:06 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 312 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.978 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us6000rp6y Id of event.
Event Code 6000rp6y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rp6y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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