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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Esperance in Australia

Posted by admin on May 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.4323S, 122.4375WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 166 km NNE of Esperance, Australia (103 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005yv7. Id of event: us20005yv7. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.69 km (5 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 00:38:44 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 16:38:44 / May 28, 2016 @ 4:38 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.4375 East, latitude -32.4323 South, depth = 8.69 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 166 km NNE of Esperance, Australia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4375° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.4323° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166km NNE of Esperance, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-28 16:38:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 16:53:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 354 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 4.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us20005yv7 Id of event.
Event Code 20005yv7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yv7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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