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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Taupo in New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.7522S, 175.9424WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Taupo in New Zealand. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/09/19 / 2019-09-04 07:02:52 / September 4, 2019 @ 7:02 am. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:02:52 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us70005btz. Event ids that are associated: us70005btz. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 175.9424 East, latitude -38.7522 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Matamata (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Matamata, Kawerau, Rotorua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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

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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: 14 km WSW of Taupo, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.9424° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.7522° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km WSW of Taupo, 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 2019-09-04 07:02:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-04 07:19:42 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 400 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 0.595 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us70005btz Id of event.
Event Code 70005btz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005btz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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