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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.2788S, -178.3575WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 210 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (130 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.14 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20003ira. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003ira. Exact location of event, longitude -178.3575 West, latitude -33.2788 South, depth = 9.14 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/09/15 / 2015-09-11 08:47:21 / September 11, 2015 @ 8:47 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:47:21 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter).

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 fourteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 210 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3575° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.2788° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km SSE 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 2015-09-11 08:47:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-11 09:06:04 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 385 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 5.067 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us20003ira Id of event.
Event Code 20003ira An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003ira, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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