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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Opotiki in New Zealand

Posted by admin on January 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.8729S, 177.7094WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Opotiki in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:46:11 / 4:46 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007rqs. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007rqs. Exact location, longitude 177.7094° East, latitude -37.8729° South, depth = 58.41 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58.41 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/01/17 / 2017-01-06 16:46:11 / January 6, 2017 @ 4:46 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kawerau, Gisborne, Whakatane (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. 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 sixteen 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 44 km ENE of Opotiki, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.7094° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.8729° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58.41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km ENE 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 2017-01-06 16:46:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-06 17:01:18 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 0.566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us10007rqs Id of event.
Event Code 10007rqs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007rqs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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