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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Esperance in Australia

Posted by admin on May 28, 2016 1 Comment

Earthquake location -32.3981S, 122.4233WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 170 km NNE of Esperance, Australia (106 miles) on Saturday. Exact location, longitude 122.4233° East, latitude -32.3981° South, depth = 9.74 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.74 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005yus. Unique identifier: us20005yus. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 15:30:26 / May 28, 2016 @ 3:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:30:26 / 11:30 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 170 km NNE of Esperance, Australia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4233° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.3981° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 170km 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 15:30:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 16:47:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 355 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 4.404 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us20005yus Id of event.
Event Code 20005yus An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005yus, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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  1. Linda

    Felt in Hopetoun

    May 28, 2016
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