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Moderate earthquake 5.5 mag, 115 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -36.9168S, 177.1947WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) strikes 115 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand (71 miles) on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000beek. Unique identifier: us7000beek. Global time and date of event 28/08/20 / 2020-08-28 15:47:06 / August 28, 2020 @ 3:47 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:47:06 / 3:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 177.1947 East, latitude -36.9168 South, depth = 10 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 10 km (6 miles).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 115 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.1947° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -36.9168° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 115 km NE of Maketu, 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 2020-08-28 15:47:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-03 10:35:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 16 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.295 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 473 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 1.096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 164 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 us7000beek Id of event.
Event Code 7000beek An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000beek, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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