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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Gisborne in New Zealand

Posted by admin on March 7, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.0858S, 179.9733WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 245 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand (152 miles). Global time and date of event 07/03/21 / 2021-03-07 00:40:11 / March 7, 2021 @ 12:40 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000dgpi. Id of event: us7000dgpi. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 179.9733° East, latitude -37.0858° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:40:11 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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: 245 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.9733° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.0858° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 245 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 2021-03-07 00:40:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-07 01:00:20 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 2.7 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 1.411 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000dgpi Id of event.
Event Code 7000dgpi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dgpi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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