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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Gisborne in New Zealand


Earthquake location -39.4104S, 178.395WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Gisborne in New Zealand. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/19 / 2019-05-14 11:16:36 / May 14, 2019 @ 11:16 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us70003kxm. Unique identifier: us70003kxm. Exact location of earthquake, 178.395° East, -39.4104° South, depth 10 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:16:36 / 11:16 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gisborne.

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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: 90 km SSE of Gisborne, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.395° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.4104° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km SSE of Gisborne, 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 2019-05-14 11:16:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-14 11:38:32 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 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 1.358 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us70003kxm Id of event.
Event Code 70003kxm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003kxm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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