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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Denman in Australia


Earthquake location -32.3238S, 150.7448WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Denman in Australia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/09/24 / 2024-09-06 19:58:33 / September 6, 2024 @ 7:58 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nq6h. Unique identifier: us6000nq6h. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:58:33 / 7:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 150.7448° East, -32.3238° South, depth 8.069 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.069 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Australia (c. 21 516 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Maitland (c. 67 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cessnock (c. 16 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Singleton (c. 13 700 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Muswellbrook (c. 11 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from East Maitland (c. 11 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Kurri Kurri (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was East Maitland, Maitland, Kurri Kurri.

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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 8 km NE of Denman, Australia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 150.7448° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.3238° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.069 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NE of Denman, Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-09-06 19:58:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-06 20:17:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 314 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.045 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 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 us6000nq6h Id of event.
Event Code 6000nq6h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nq6h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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