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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 120 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand


Earthquake location -32.2164S, -178.0186WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 120 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (75 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/15 / 2015-06-28 12:53:49 / June 28, 2015 @ 12:53 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -178.0186° West, -32.2164° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002m7a. Unique identifier: us10002m7a. The temblor was picked up at 00:53:49 / 12:53 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 120 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0186° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2164° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120km SE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-06-28 12:53:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-28 13:10:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 416 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10002m7a Id of event.
Event Code 10002m7a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002m7a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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