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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 287 km NNE of Raoul Island, New Zealand

Posted by admin on February 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -27.0668S, -176.3444WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 287 km NNE of Raoul Island, New Zealand (178 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000j8uj. Event ids that are associated: us2000j8uj. Global time and date of event 10/01/19 / 2019-01-10 20:26:13 / January 10, 2019 @ 8:26 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:26:13 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.3444 West, latitude -27.0668 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 287 km NNE of Raoul Island, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.3444° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.0668° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 287km NNE 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 2019-01-10 20:26:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-06 22:48:53 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 369 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 2.582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us2000j8uj Id of event.
Event Code 2000j8uj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j8uj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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