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Moderate earthquake: M5.9 quake has struck near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand


Earthquake location -30.3877S, -177.5593WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nj2k. Id of event: us6000nj2k. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 12:23:01 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/24 / 2024-08-09 12:23:01 / August 9, 2024 @ 12:23 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.153 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.5593 West, latitude -30.3877 South, depth = 31.153 km.

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

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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: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5593° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.3877° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.153 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 12:23:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-09 12:55:32 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 3.592 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 536 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 113 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.165 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 41 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 us6000nj2k Id of event.
Event Code 6000nj2k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nj2k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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