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Major earthquake 7.8 mag, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand


Earthquake location -29.7466S, -177.2237WA major earthquake magnitude 7.8 (ml/mb) strikes Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles) on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/03/21 / 2021-03-04 19:28:30 / March 4, 2021 @ 7:28 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000dflf. Ids that are associated to the event: at00qpgm3n, us7000dflf. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:28:30 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -177.2237 West, latitude -29.7466 South, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. Each year there are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.2237° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.7466° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands, 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 2021-03-04 19:28:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-04 19:51:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.214 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 936 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 ,at,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 0.792 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 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 us7000dflf Id of event.
Event Code 7000dflf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qpgm3n,us7000dflf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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