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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Raoul Island in New Zealand


Earthquake location -30.0224S, -178.3751WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 95 km SSW of Raoul Island, New Zealand (59 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70004lj9. Id of event: us70004lj9. The temblor was picked up at 12:46:25 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -178.3751 West, latitude -30.0224 South, depth = 12.12 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 12.12 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/07/19 / 2019-07-06 00:46:25 / July 6, 2019 @ 12:46 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days eighty-four 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.

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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. 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: 95 km SSW of Raoul Island, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.3751° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.0224° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km SSW of Raoul Island, 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 2019-07-06 00:46:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-20 19:56:16 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 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 0.866 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us70004lj9 Id of event.
Event Code 70004lj9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004lj9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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