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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on June 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.9041S, -177.488WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 146 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (91 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -177.488° West, -30.9041° South, depth 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was detected at 20:50:16 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60004459. Unique identifier: us60004459. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/06/19 / 2019-06-21 08:50:16 / June 21, 2019 @ 8:50 am.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 146 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.488° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.9041° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 146km 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 2019-06-21 08:50:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-21 09:34:13 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 1.697 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 77 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 us60004459 Id of event.
Event Code 60004459 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60004459, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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