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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Wainui in New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 25, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.3919S, 178.6093WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Wainui in New Zealand on Friday. Event id: us6000quzf. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000quzf. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 178.6093 East, latitude -38.3919 South, depth = 10 km. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:17:33 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter). 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: 25/07/25 / 2025-07-25 04:17:33 / July 25, 2025 @ 4:17 am.

Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gisborne (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 57 km NE of Wainui, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.6093° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.3919° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57 km NE of Wainui, 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 2025-07-25 04:17:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-25 04:39:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.862 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 234 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 us6000quzf Id of event.
Event Code 6000quzf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000quzf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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