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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia region

Posted by admin on May 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -13.3515S, -142.4152WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia region (0 miles). Event id: us20005z15. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005z15. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/16 / 2016-05-29 15:15:38 / May 29, 2016 @ 3:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -142.4152 West, latitude -13.3515 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 06:15:38 / 6:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -142.4152° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -13.3515° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-05-29 15:15:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-29 16:56:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 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 312 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 4.992 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us20005z15 Id of event.
Event Code 20005z15 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005z15, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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