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USGS us100049xy
27 Dec 2015, 15:19
southern East Pacific Rise
A magnitude 5.3 mwc earthquake at 10 km depth.
Published location
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-33.013200, -108.824400
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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
us100049xy
Coordinates
-33.0132, -108.8244
Network
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Significance
432