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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 178 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.6594S, 179.6069WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 178 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand (111 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/03/21 / 2021-03-04 19:25:57 / March 4, 2021 @ 7:25 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:25:57 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000dhr6. Unique identifier: us7000dhr6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 179.6069 East, latitude -37.6594 South, depth = 10 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 178 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.6069° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.6594° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178 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 2021-03-04 19:25:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-12 22:36:36 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 1.037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us7000dhr6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000dhr6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dhr6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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