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Strong earthquake, 6.9 mag has occurred near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.8419S, -179.3335WA earthquake magnitude 6.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 km SW of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (38 miles). The 6.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:19:02 / 4:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 10/09/18 / 2018-09-10 04:19:02 / September 10, 2018 @ 4:19 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 111.05 km (69 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -179.3335 West, latitude -31.8419 South, depth = 111.05 km. Id of earthquake: us2000hbpv. Event ids that are associated: at00petnzn, us2000hbpv, pt18253000. A tsunami warning has been issued near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km SW of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.3335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.8419° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km SW 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 2018-09-10 04:19:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-10 04:52:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.4 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 1 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 733 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 2.857 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 18 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000hbpv Id of event.
Event Code 2000hbpv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00petnzn,us2000hbpv,pt18253000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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