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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on November 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.6201S, -176.6264WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 251 km ESE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (156 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 15:47:31 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/15 / 2015-11-19 03:47:31 / November 19, 2015 @ 3:47 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.61 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.6264 West, latitude -32.6201 South, depth = 39.61 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10003zfk. Unique identifier: us10003zfk.

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 twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 251 km ESE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.6264° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.6201° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 251km ESE 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 2015-11-19 03:47:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-19 04:05:51 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 400 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 3.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us10003zfk Id of event.
Event Code 10003zfk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003zfk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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