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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Raoul Island in New Zealand


Earthquake location -27.1131S, -176.1389WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 294 km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand (183 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/08/15 / 2015-08-14 13:43:17 / August 14, 2015 @ 1:43 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 43.2 km (27 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000329x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000329x. Exact location of event, longitude -176.1389 West, latitude -27.1131 South, depth = 43.2 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:43:17 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 294 km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.1389° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.1131° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 294km NE of Raoul Island, 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 2015-08-14 13:43:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-14 14:07:52 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 2.647 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us1000329x Id of event.
Event Code 1000329x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000329x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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