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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Gisborne in New Zealand

Posted by admin on August 31, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.2078S, 179.1249WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 188 km NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand (117 miles). The 5.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:04:35 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10006j5q. Unique identifier: us10006j5q. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.1249 East, latitude -37.2078 South, depth = 22.4 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.4 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/08/16 / 2016-08-31 22:04:35 / August 31, 2016 @ 10:04 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 three 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 188 km NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.1249° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.2078° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 188km NNE of Gisborne, 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 2016-08-31 22:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-31 22:28:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 3.8 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 518 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 0.741 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us10006j5q Id of event.
Event Code 10006j5q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006j5q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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