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Great earthquake, 8 mag was detected near Kermadec Islands region

Posted by admin on March 4, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location -29.6S, -176WA great earthquake magnitude 8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Kermadec Islands region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Kermadec Islands region (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: at00qpgm3n. Event ids that are associated: at00qpgm3n, pt21063003. Exact location of earthquake, -176° West, -29.6° South, depth 10 km. The temblor was detected at 19:28:35 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 04/03/21 / 2021-03-04 19:28:35 / March 4, 2021 @ 7:28 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 8.0 or greater can totally destroy communities near the epicenter. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1-2 great earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: Kermadec Islands region.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.6° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 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 2021-03-04 19:28:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-04 19:38:45 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 1 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 985 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 8.982255 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136.799989056 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00qpgm3n Id of event.
Event Code 00qpgm3n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qpgm3n,pt21063003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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