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Strong earthquake: M6.4 quake has struck near Gisborne in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.6724S, 179.5961WA earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 176 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand (109 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000dg8x. Event ids that are associated: us7000dg8x. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/03/21 / 2021-03-06 00:16:21 / March 6, 2021 @ 12:16 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:16:21 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.2 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 179.5961° East, -37.6724° South, depth 9.2 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 176 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.5961° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.6724° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 176 km NE of Gisborne, 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 2021-03-06 00:16:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-06 00:39:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.333 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 631 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 1.029 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 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 us7000dg8x Id of event.
Event Code 7000dg8x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dg8x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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