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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Macquarie Island in Australia

Posted by admin on July 1, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -52.2123S, 159.6073WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 256 km N of Macquarie Island, Australia (159 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: usd0005u42. Ids that are associated to the event: usd0005u42. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/07/15 / 2015-07-01 14:30:21 / July 1, 2015 @ 2:30 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 159.6073 East, latitude -52.2123 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 01:30:21 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 256 km N of Macquarie Island, Australia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 159.6073° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -52.2123° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 256km N of Macquarie Island, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-01 14:30:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-01 20:02:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 0 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 500 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 2.323 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 usd0005u42 Id of event.
Event Code d0005u42 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,usd0005u42, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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