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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Wairoa in New Zealand


Earthquake location -39.2229S, 177.7288WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Wairoa in New Zealand. The temblor was picked up at 17:16:38 / 5:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 01/10/19 / 2019-10-01 05:16:38 / October 1, 2019 @ 5:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 177.7288° East, latitude -39.2229° South, depth = 10 km. Event id: us70005p7u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005p7u.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hastings, Taradale, Napier (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Hastings (c. 61 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop).

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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km SE of Wairoa, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.7288° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.2229° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SE of Wairoa, 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 2019-10-01 05:16:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-01 05:36:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 433 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 0.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us70005p7u Id of event.
Event Code 70005p7u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005p7u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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