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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Australia


Earthquake location -63.1275S, 144.7936WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes South of Australia (0 miles) on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/02/16 / 2016-02-23 18:08:46 / February 23, 2016 @ 6:08 pm. The temblor was picked up at 04:08:46 / 4:08 am (local time epicenter). 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 7.71 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 144.7936 East, latitude -63.1275 South, depth = 7.71 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004s4c. Id of event: us10004s4c.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: South of Australia. This information 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 144.7936° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -63.1275° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place South of Australia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-23 18:08:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-23 18:26:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 0 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 11.317 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 62 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 us10004s4c Id of event.
Event Code 10004s4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004s4c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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