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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Masterton in New Zealand

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.9392S, 175.4599WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Masterton in New Zealand on Thursday. Id of earthquake: us10005glu. Event ids that are associated: us10005glu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 175.4599° East, latitude -40.9392° South, depth = 21.58 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.58 km (13 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:55:17 / 7:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 19:55:17 / May 11, 2016 @ 7:55 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 56 km (34 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Palmerston North, Petone (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 fourteen 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km W of Masterton, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.4599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.9392° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km W of Masterton, 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 2016-05-11 19:55:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 20:17:29 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 0.501 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us10005glu Id of event.
Event Code 10005glu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005glu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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