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Strong earthquake, 6.2 mag has occurred near Macquarie Island region

Posted by admin on July 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -57.6831S, 157.6307WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, Macquarie Island region (0 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Macquarie Island region (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 157.6307° East, latitude -57.6831° South, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us6000qvbw. Event ids that are associated: pt25207001, at00t00l58, us6000qvbw. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/25 / 2025-07-26 16:15:04 / July 26, 2025 @ 4:15 pm. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:04 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Macquarie Island region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.6307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -57.6831° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Macquarie Island region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-07-26 16:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-26 16:33:08 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 591 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 ,pt,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 186 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.276 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 40 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 us6000qvbw Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvbw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt25207001,at00t00l58,us6000qvbw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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