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Strong earthquake: M6.3 quake has struck near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -32.0289S, -177.8026WA earthquake with magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) was reported 123 km ESE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (76 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: us1000jb8d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19065001, at00pnybt2, us1000jb8d. A tsunami warning has been issued near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:46:11 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/19 / 2019-03-06 15:46:11 / March 6, 2019 @ 3:46 pm. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -177.8026° West, -32.0289° South.

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 twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 123 km ESE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8026° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.0289° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km ESE of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2019-03-06 15:46:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-06 16:06:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 1 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 611 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 ,pt,at,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 7.911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000jb8d Id of event.
Event Code 1000jb8d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19065001,at00pnybt2,us1000jb8d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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