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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near the North Island


Earthquake location -35.1626S, -179.3358WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, east of the North Island of New Zealand (0 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/24 / 2024-09-13 08:23:57 / September 13, 2024 @ 8:23 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndgu. Unique identifier: us7000ndgu. The temblor was detected at 08:23:57 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -179.3358° West, latitude -35.1626° South, depth = 13.248 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.248 km (8 miles).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: east of the North Island of New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.3358° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.1626° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.248 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place east of the North Island of 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 2024-09-13 08:23:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-13 08:43:10 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 385 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.059 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us7000ndgu Id of event.
Event Code 7000ndgu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ndgu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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