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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Australia


Earthquake location -25.4326S, 154.2152WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes near the east coast of Australia (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 154.2152° East, latitude -25.4326° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 23:41:40 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 23:41:40 / July 29, 2015 @ 11:41 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10002w8v. Unique identifier: us10002w8v.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: near the east coast of Australia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.2152° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -25.4326° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place near the east coast of Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-29 23:41:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-30 00:01:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 5.01 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 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 9.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us10002w8v Id of event.
Event Code 10002w8v An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10002w8v, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

3 Comments

  1. Joel Tabarot

    I live on the Gold Coast and I heard a bang from the garage and the TV unit in the lounge started to rattle and I could feel like a small sea movement under the chair I was sitting on. It lasted few seconds.

  2. Liz

    Shook the buildings here in Hervey Bay

  3. Maryse

    Shook the hell out of the windows in my unit in Maroochydore.

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