Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Foxton in New Zealand

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Foxton in New Zealand. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54.08 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:34:03 / 12:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.9712 East, latitude -40.4749 South, depth = 54.08 km. Id of earthquake: us70009qa3. Event ids that are associated: us70009qa3. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/05/20 / 2020-05-26 00:34:03 / May 26, 2020 @ 12:34 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt. Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.9712° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.4749° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km W of Foxton, 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	2020-05-26 00:34:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-26 00:52:58	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	6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.805	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	0.498	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	49	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	us70009qa3	Id of event.
Event Code	70009qa3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009qa3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

174.9712° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-40.4749° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

54.08 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

27km W of Foxton, 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

2020-05-26 00:34:03

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-05-26 00:52:58

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

3.805

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

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

0.498

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.69 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us70009qa3

Id of event.

Event Code

70009qa3

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us70009qa3,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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