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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, Kermadec Islands region


Earthquake location -30.5461S, -179.6466WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, Kermadec Islands region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -179.6466° West, -30.5461° South, depth 337.53 km. Id of earthquake: us6000d6pl. Event ids that are associated: us6000d6pl. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:41:58 / 11:41 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/21 / 2021-01-08 11:41:58 / January 8, 2021 @ 11:41 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 337.53 km (210 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: Kermadec Islands region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.6466° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.5461° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 337.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-08 11:41:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 11:59:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 416 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 1.976 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 31 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 us6000d6pl Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6pl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d6pl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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