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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Macquarie Island


Earthquake location -56.2851S, 147.3176WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, West of Macquarie Island (0 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:25:29 / 7:25 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, 147.3176° East, -56.2851° South, depth 14.61 km. Id of earthquake: us2000fta3. Event ids that are associated: us2000fta3. Global time and date of event 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 21:25:29 / July 1, 2018 @ 9:25 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 14.61 km (9 miles).

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 four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: West of Macquarie Island.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 147.3176° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -56.2851° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place West of Macquarie Island Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-07-01 21:25:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-31 00:26:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 416 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 6.868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us2000fta3 Id of event.
Event Code 2000fta3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fta3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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