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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Raoul Island in New Zealand

Posted by admin on February 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.4873S, -177.5661WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 139 km SSE of Raoul Island, New Zealand (86 miles) on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 20:52:15 / 8:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/16 / 2016-02-04 08:52:15 / February 4, 2016 @ 8:52 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us20004x15. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004x15. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -177.5661° West, -30.4873° South.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 139 km SSE of Raoul Island, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5661° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.4873° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 139km SSE 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 2016-02-04 08:52:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-04 09:12:34 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 1.277 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us20004x15 Id of event.
Event Code 20004x15 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004x15, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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