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

Posted by admin on October 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.0824S, 178.7951WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported 173 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand (107 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: us20007cu1. Unique identifier: us20007cu1. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 19:41:17 / October 8, 2016 @ 7:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 178.7951 East, latitude -37.0824 South, depth = 10 km. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:41:17 / 7:41 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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 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: 173 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.7951° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.0824° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173km 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 2016-10-08 19:41:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-08 20:06:19 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 3.5 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 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 0.617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 30 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20007cu1 Id of event.
Event Code 20007cu1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007cu1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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