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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near the North Island


Earthquake location -35.4391S, -179.7416WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, East of the North Island of New Zealand (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/07/15 / 2015-07-07 06:21:02 / July 7, 2015 @ 6:21 am UTC/GMT. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:21:02 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20002vuf. Ids that are associated to the event: us20002vuf, gcmt20150707062056. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.7416 West, latitude -35.4391 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: East of the North Island of New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.7416° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.4391° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place East of the North Island of 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 2015-07-07 06:21:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-08 17:15:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 482 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,gcmt, 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 2.638 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwc The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20002vuf Id of event.
Event Code 20002vuf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002vuf,gcmt20150707062056, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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