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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Opotiki in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.2249S, 178.7066WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 157 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand (98 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/09/16 / 2016-09-01 19:18:32 / September 1, 2016 @ 7:18 pm. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:18:32 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10006jf5. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006jf5. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 178.7066 East, latitude -37.2249 South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 157 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.7066° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.2249° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 157km NE of Opotiki, 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 2016-09-01 19:18:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-01 19:45:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.73 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 465 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 0.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us10006jf5 Id of event.
Event Code 10006jf5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006jf5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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