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Strong earthquake, 6.4 mag has occurred near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -30.6004S, -177.787WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) strikes 140 km NE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (87 miles) on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/06/19 / 2019-06-19 07:01:42 / June 19, 2019 @ 7:01 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 6.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:01:42 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19170000, at00ptc3is, us600042vn. Id of event: us600042vn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.787 West, latitude -30.6004 South, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 140 km NE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.787° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6004° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 140km NE 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 2019-06-19 07:01:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-19 07:22:51 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 1 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 630 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 ,pt,at,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 1.356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 51 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 us600042vn Id of event.
Event Code 600042vn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19170000,at00ptc3is,us600042vn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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