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sue4e3

(731 posts) Fri Aug 19, 2016, 07:40 PM Aug 2016

German center: 7.3 magnitude quake in South Atlantic

The Potsdam-based German Research Centre for Geosciences, or GFZ, says the quake struck the South Georgia Island Region at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) early Friday.
The site is about 1,500 miles east of the southern tip of Argentina.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-08-german-center-magnitude-quake-south.html#jCp

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German center: 7.3 magnitude quake in South Atlantic (Original Post) sue4e3 Aug 2016 OP

There have been six decent sized quakes in that area today ... Auggie Aug 2016 #1

Auggie

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1. There have been six decent sized quakes in that area today ...

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Fri Aug 19, 2016, 07:46 PM

Aug 2016

all but one were over 5.0.

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