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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Gisborne in New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.9675S, 178.0053WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Gisborne in New Zealand. The temblor was reported at 11:58:01 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.66 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/19 / 2019-12-09 23:58:01 / December 9, 2019 @ 11:58 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 178.0053° East, latitude -38.9675° South, depth = 24.66 km. Unique identifier: us60006pm8. Ids that are associated to the event: us60006pm8.

The epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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: 34 km S of Gisborne, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.0053° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.9675° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km S 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 2019-12-09 23:58:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-10 00:25:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 0.874 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 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 us60006pm8 Id of event.
Event Code 60006pm8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006pm8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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