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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag has occurred near Macquarie Island in Australia

Posted by admin on September 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -54.6608S, 158.6049WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) strikes 29 km SW of Macquarie Island, Australia (18 miles) on Friday. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:46:19 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 158.6049 East, latitude -54.6608 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Macquarie Island in Australia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/09/16 / 2016-09-08 21:46:19 / September 8, 2016 @ 9:46 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us10006n6r. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt16252050, us10006n6r.

Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 29 km SW of Macquarie Island, Australia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.6049° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -54.6608° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km SW of Macquarie Island, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-09-08 21:46:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-08 22:08:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 6.83 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 611 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 ,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 0.261 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 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 mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006n6r Id of event.
Event Code 10006n6r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt16252050,us10006n6r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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