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USGS usp000gzes
19 Jul 2009, 12:39
South Indian Ocean
A magnitude 5.4 mwc earthquake at 21.6 km depth.
Published location
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-8.956000, 95.500000
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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
usp000gzes
Coordinates
-8.956, 95.5
Network
us
Significance
449