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USGS us1000696p
1 Aug 2016, 11:29
South Indian Ocean
A magnitude 5.4 mb earthquake at 10 km depth.
Published location
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-23.914300, 82.420800
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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
us1000696p
Coordinates
-23.9143, 82.4208
Network
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Significance
449