Earthquake Information

July 15, 2013 (14:03:43 UTC)

Quake Location

Magnitude 7.3 South Sandwich Islands

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake rocked the South Sandwich Islands, an uninhabited British territory off the coast of Argentina in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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Wave Propagation (mp4 1.03 MB / YouTube)

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