Moderate mag. 5.8 earthquake - South Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, 29 Dec 2020 10:34 pm (GMT -1) -

Moderate mag. 5.8 earthquake - South Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, 29 Dec 2020 10:34 pm (GMT -1)

Moderate magnitude 5.8 earthquake at 10 km depth

29 Dec 23:45 UTC: First to report: GFZ after 10 minutes.
30 Dec 06:50: Magnitude recalculated from 5.3 to 5.8.
30 Dec 06:52: Epicenter location corrected by 17 km (10.7 mi) towards NNW.
Date & time: 29 Dec 2020 23:34:58 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: Tuesday, 29 Dec 2020 10:34 pm (GMT -1)
Magnitude: 5.8
Depth: 10.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 0.8°S / 21.14°W
Nearest volcano: Unnamed 0.72°S/20.53°W (68 km / 42 mi)
Weather at epicenter at time of quake:
Scattered Clouds 25.4°C (78 F), humidity: 87%, wind: 5 m/s (10 kts) from SE
Primary data source: GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
Estimated released energy: 3.2 x 1013 joules (8.78 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 7558 tons of TNT or 0.5 atomic bombs!) More info
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Data for the same earthquake reported by different agencies

Info: The more agencies report about the same quake and post similar data, the more confidence you can have in the data. It takes normally up to a few hours until earthquake parameters are calculated with near-optimum precision.
MagnitudeDepthLocationSource
M 5.810 kmCentral Mid Atlantic RidgeGFZ
M 5.910 kmCENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGEEMSC
M 5.910 kmCentral Mid-Atlantic RidgeUSGS
M 5.710 kmCentral Mid Atlantic RidgeGeoAu
M 5.110 kmCentral Mid-Atlantic RidgeNIEP

User reports for this quake (2)

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale.
1735.3 km WSW of epicenter [Map] / not felt (reported through our app)
1738.3 km WSW of epicenter [Map] / not felt (reported through our app)
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