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Major earthquake: M7.6 quake has struck near Ile Hunter in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on August 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.489S, 173.0954WA major earthquake magnitude 7.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 108 km E of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia (67 miles). Id of earthquake: us10006d5h. Event ids that are associated: at00obrw0f, pt16225050, us10006d5h. A tsunami warning has been issued near Ile Hunter in New Caledonia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/08/16 / 2016-08-12 01:26:36 / August 12, 2016 @ 1:26 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.11 km (10 miles). The 7.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:26:36 / 1:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 173.0954° East, -22.489° South, depth 16.11 km.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. Each year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world.

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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: 108 km E of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.0954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.489° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108km E of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-12 01:26:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-12 01:44:30 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 5.22 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 1 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 889 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 ,at,pt,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 4.806 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006d5h Id of event.
Event Code 10006d5h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00obrw0f,pt16225050,us10006d5h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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