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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Opotiki in New Zealand

Posted by admin on March 19, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -36.5492S, 178.8559WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 220 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand (137 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.86 km (25 miles). Global time and date of event 14/03/20 / 2020-03-14 10:05:15 / March 14, 2020 @ 10:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 178.8559° East, -36.5492° South, depth 40.86 km. The temblor was reported at 22:05:15 / 10:05 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60008hpv. Event ids that are associated: us60008hpv. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 220 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.8559° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.5492° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 220km NE of Opotiki, 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 2020-03-14 10:05:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-19 22:18:52 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 482 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 1.102 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 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 us60008hpv Id of event.
Event Code 60008hpv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60008hpv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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