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Magnitude 4.9 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 13:39:50 UTC

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

World Location

Regional Location

Magnitude 4.9
Date-Time Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 13:39:50 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 at 12:39:50 PM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 12.83S 14.68W
Depth 10 kilometers
Region SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Reference 540 km (335 miles) S of Ascension Island
2580 km (1600 miles) SW of ACCRA, Ghana
Location Quality Error estimate: horizontal +/- 10.1 km; depth fixed by location program
Location Quality
Parameters
Nst=44, Nph=44, Dmin=2359.1 km, Rmss=0.99 sec, Erho=10.1 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=64.6 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

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