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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Harrington in Australia

Posted by admin on April 23, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.278S, 153.238WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Harrington in Australia. The temblor was detected at 18:55:51 / 6:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 153.238° East, -32.278° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/04/17 / 2017-04-19 08:55:51 / April 19, 2017 @ 8:55 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008k3m. Id of event: us10008k3m.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Forster. Epicenter of the earthquake was 69 km (43 miles) from Forster (c. 17 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 68 km SE of Harrington, Australia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 153.238° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.278° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km SE of Harrington, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-19 08:55:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-23 21:25:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 158 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008k3m Id of event.
Event Code 10008k3m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008k3m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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