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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Raoul Island in New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 4, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.1456S, -177.7707WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 98 km S of Raoul Island, New Zealand (61 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 17:38:45 / July 4, 2016 @ 5:38 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.7707 West, latitude -30.1456 South, depth = 33.33 km. The temblor was detected at 05:38:45 / 5:38 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005zve. Id of event: us10005zve. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 98 km S of Raoul Island, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.7707° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.1456° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km S 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 2016-07-04 17:38:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-04 18:13:50 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 416 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 0.908 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005zve Id of event.
Event Code 10005zve An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zve, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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