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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 101 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand

Posted by admin on June 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.9338S, -178.0073WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 101 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (63 miles) on Saturday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:12:50 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us600041b2. Ids that are associated to the event: us600041b2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/06/19 / 2019-06-16 00:12:50 / June 16, 2019 @ 12:12 am. Exact location of event, longitude -178.0073 West, latitude -30.9338 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 101 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0073° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9338° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km ENE 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 2019-06-16 00:12:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-16 05:45:22 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 326 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 1.684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us600041b2 Id of event.
Event Code 600041b2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600041b2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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