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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Tokoroa in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.2988S, 176.0507WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Tokoroa in New Zealand on Thursday. Event id: us20003nf0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20003nf0. The temblor was reported at 06:47:52 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 18:47:52 / September 23, 2015 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 186.04 km (116 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.0507 East, latitude -38.2988 South, depth = 186.04 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Whakatane, Hamilton, Cambridge (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Hamilton (c. 152 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop).

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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km ESE of Tokoroa, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.0507° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.2988° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 186.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ESE of Tokoroa, 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 2015-09-23 18:47:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-23 19:12:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 0.835 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us20003nf0 Id of event.
Event Code 20003nf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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