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Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near the Kermadec Islands


Earthquake location -32.9762S, -179.7597WA earthquake magnitude 6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, south of the Kermadec Islands (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 20:42:06 / December 10, 2020 @ 8:42 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 82.71 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -179.7597° West, latitude -32.9762° South, depth = 82.71 km. Event id: us7000cpws. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cpws. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:42:06 / 8:42 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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: south of the Kermadec Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.7597° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.9762° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Kermadec Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-12-10 20:42:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 21:01:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.721 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 554 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 4.037 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 us7000cpws Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpws An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpws, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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