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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag was detected near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 8, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.7958S, -178.648WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 74 km NNE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (46 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.648 West, latitude -30.7958 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/17 / 2017-12-08 02:09:59 / December 8, 2017 @ 2:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 14:09:59 / 2:09 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000c1xc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c1xc.

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes 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 four and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 74 km NNE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.648° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7958° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km NNE of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2017-12-08 02:09:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-08 02:32:27 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 5.25 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 591 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 18.436 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwp The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000c1xc Id of event.
Event Code 2000c1xc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000c1xc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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