Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Kermadec Islands region

A earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, Kermadec Islands region (0 miles). Exact location, longitude -176.8735° West, latitude -28.9693° South, depth = 19.555 km. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:54:41 / 3:54 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mp9e. Unique identifier: us7000mp9e. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/24 / 2024-05-31 15:54:41 / May 31, 2024 @ 3:54 pm. 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 19.555 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: Kermadec Islands region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.8735° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-28.9693° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.555 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Kermadec Islands region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-05-31 15:54:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-31 16:14:53	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	591	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	117	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.961	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us7000mp9e	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mp9e	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mp9e,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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