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Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag has occurred near Macquarie Island in Australia

Posted by admin on September 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -54.576S, 158.637WA earthquake with magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 22 km WSW of Macquarie Island, Australia (14 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:46:21 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Macquarie Island in Australia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 158.637° East, -54.576° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/09/16 / 2016-09-08 21:46:21 / September 8, 2016 @ 9:46 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pt16252050. Unique identifier: pt16252050.

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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: 22 km WSW of Macquarie Island, Australia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 158.637° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -54.576° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km WSW 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 21:46:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-08 21:54:49 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 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 691 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107.99999136 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt16252050 Id of event.
Event Code 16252050 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt16252050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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