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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Amberley in New Zealand

Posted by admin on November 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -42.712S, 172.8343WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Amberley in New Zealand on Monday. The temblor was reported at 00:25:55 / 12:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000779s. Unique identifier: us1000779s. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 12:25:55 / November 13, 2016 @ 12:25 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 9.58 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 172.8343 East, latitude -42.712 South, depth = 9.58 km.

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Christchurch, Kaiapoi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 51 km N of Amberley, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.8343° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.712° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km N of Amberley, 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 2016-11-13 12:25:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-13 12:42:24 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 416 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 0.42 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 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 us1000779s Id of event.
Event Code 1000779s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000779s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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