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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on June 16, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -31.9954S, -178.0891WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 98 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (61 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us600041id. Id of event: us600041id. The temblor was picked up at 11:20:01 / 11:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -178.0891° West, latitude -31.9954° South, depth = 28.04 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/06/19 / 2019-06-16 23:20:01 / June 16, 2019 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.04 km (17 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. 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: 98 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.0891° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.9954° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km SE 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 23:20:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-16 23:37:42 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 385 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 2.745 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us600041id Id of event.
Event Code 600041id An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600041id, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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