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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand


Earthquake location -30.3767S, -177.5671WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.5671 West, latitude -30.3767 South, depth = 22.726 km. The temblor was reported at 07:36:57 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.726 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 07:36:57 / August 9, 2024 @ 7:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000nj1g. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nj1g.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.3767° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.726 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands, 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 2024-08-09 07:36:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-09 07:55:12 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 385 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.153 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000nj1g Id of event.
Event Code 6000nj1g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nj1g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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