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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Murupara in New Zealand

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.6256S, 176.5956WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Murupara in New Zealand on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 176.5956° East, -38.6256° South, depth 111.42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 111.42 km (69 miles). Event id: us10005giu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005giu. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 13:44:22 / May 11, 2016 @ 1:44 pm. The temblor was reported at 01:44:22 / 1:44 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taradale, Napier, Whakatane (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 19 km SSW of Murupara, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.5956° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.6256° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km SSW of Murupara, 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 2016-05-11 13:44:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 14:04:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us10005giu Id of event.
Event Code 10005giu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005giu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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