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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Brooklyn in New Zealand

Posted by admin on November 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.684S, 174.4913WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Brooklyn in New Zealand on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13.67 km (8 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000779j. Id of event: us1000779j. Global time and date of event 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 12:04:15 / November 13, 2016 @ 12:04 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 00:04:15 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 174.4913° East, -41.684° South, depth 13.67 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Upper Hutt, Porirua (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 46 km SSW of Brooklyn, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.4913° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.684° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km SSW of Brooklyn, 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 2016-11-13 12:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-13 12:32:00 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 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 385 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 0.583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us1000779j Id of event.
Event Code 1000779j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000779j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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