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Moderate earthquake: M5.4 quake has struck near the Kermadec Islands

Posted by admin on January 22, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -33.4405S, -178.797WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) strikes south of the Kermadec Islands (0 miles) on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.53 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000d2f1. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000d2f1. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/01/21 / 2021-01-22 16:23:33 / January 22, 2021 @ 4:23 pm. The temblor was picked up at 16:23:33 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -178.797 West, latitude -33.4405 South, depth = 12.53 km.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-four 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: south of the Kermadec Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.797° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.4405° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.53 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 2021-01-22 16:23:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-22 16:42:40 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 5.399 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 449 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 4.247 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 197 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 us7000d2f1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000d2f1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d2f1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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