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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Raoul Island in New Zealand


Earthquake location -30.4856S, -177.4929WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 140 km SSE of Raoul Island, New Zealand (87 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:42:13 / 9:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000ittn. Id of event: us2000ittn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.4929 West, latitude -30.4856 South, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/12/18 / 2018-12-15 09:42:13 / December 15, 2018 @ 9:42 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 140 km SSE of Raoul Island, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.4929° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.4856° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 140km SSE of Raoul Island, 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 2018-12-15 09:42:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-15 10:02:15 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 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 400 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 1.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us2000ittn Id of event.
Event Code 2000ittn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000ittn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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