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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 217 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand


Earthquake location -32.8936S, -177.3622WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 217 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (135 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.78 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 13/08/15 / 2015-08-13 15:58:24 / August 13, 2015 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us100031zm. Unique identifier: us100031zm. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:58:24 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.3622 West, latitude -32.8936 South, depth = 1.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 four and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 217 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.3622° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.8936° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 217km 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 2015-08-13 15:58:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-13 16:18:49 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 432 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 3.669 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 144 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 us100031zm Id of event.
Event Code 100031zm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031zm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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