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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Nairne in Australia

Posted by admin on August 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -34.9546S, 139.0328WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Nairne in Australia on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude 139.0328° East, latitude -34.9546° South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/18 / 2018-08-08 11:01:38 / August 8, 2018 @ 11:01 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000g5at. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g5at. The temblor was picked up at 20:31:38 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Adelaide (c. 1 225 200 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Adelaide Hills (c. 60 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Morphett Vale (c. 22 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Prospect (c. 20 200 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Gawler (c. 20 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Victor Harbor, Aldinga, Nuriootpa (min 5000 pop).

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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 14 km NE of Nairne, Australia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.0328° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.9546° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km NE of Nairne, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-08-08 11:01:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-08 15:40:46 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 570 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 161 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 3.27 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 173 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 us1000g5at Id of event.
Event Code 1000g5at An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000g5at, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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