According to the official measurement of the China Earthquake Network, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in the middle of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 19:59 Beijing time on February 8 (10:59 local time on February 8), with a depth of 10 kilometers, and the epicenter was located at 0.40 degrees south latitude and 20.00 degrees west longitude.
There are no large and medium-sized cities within 300 km of the epicenter. The average altitude within 5 kilometers of the epicenter is about -5747 meters.
