A earthquake magnitude 6.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 174 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (108 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/07/18 / 2018-07-07 21:33:43 / July 7, 2018 @ 9:33 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pt18188001. Unique identifier: pt18188001. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.165 West, latitude -30.925 South, depth = 21 km. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:33:43 / 9:33 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 174 km ENE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.
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