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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Macquarie Island


Earthquake location -58.0464S, 148.291WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, West of Macquarie Island (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 148.291 East, latitude -58.0464 South, depth = 32.96 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000768s. Id of event: us1000768s. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/11/16 / 2016-11-08 06:25:55 / November 8, 2016 @ 6:25 am. 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 32.96 km (20 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:25:55 / 4:25 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: West of Macquarie Island.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 148.291° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -58.0464° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place West of Macquarie Island Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-08 06:25:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-08 11:44:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 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 369 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 15.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 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 us1000768s Id of event.
Event Code 1000768s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000768s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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