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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, Kermadec Islands region


Earthquake location -31.5611S, -178.4341WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, Kermadec Islands region (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -178.4341 West, latitude -31.5611 South, depth = 63.055 km. The temblor was reported at 14:10:46 / 2:10 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000p037. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000p037. Global time and date of event 29/09/24 / 2024-09-29 14:10:46 / September 29, 2024 @ 2:10 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.055 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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 region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4341° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.5611° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 63.055 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 2024-09-29 14:10:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-21 21:09:18 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 326 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.334 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 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 us6000p037 Id of event.
Event Code 6000p037 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p037, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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