Moderate earthquake 5.8 mag, 180 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 180 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand (112 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us10006klg. Event ids that are associated: us10006klg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 178.9247° East, latitude -37.1118° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 03:18:59 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/09/16 / 2016-09-05 15:18:59 / September 5, 2016 @ 3:18 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. 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: 180 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	178.9247° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-37.1118° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	180km 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	2016-09-05 15:18:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-05 15:58:42	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	3.85	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	518	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	0.667	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 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	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us10006klg	Id of event.
Event Code	10006klg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006klg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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