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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, south of the Kermadec Islands

Posted by admin on July 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.3362S, -177.8839WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported south of the Kermadec Islands (0 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/20 / 2020-07-18 12:00:52 / July 18, 2020 @ 12:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.8839 West, latitude -33.3362 South, depth = 57.22 km. The temblor was reported at 12:00:52 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000aqtt. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000aqtt. The epicenter was at a depth of 57.22 km (36 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: south of the Kermadec Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8839° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.3362° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Kermadec Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-07-18 12:00:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-18 12:19:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 416 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 4.078 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us7000aqtt Id of event.
Event Code 7000aqtt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aqtt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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