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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, Macquarie Island region


Earthquake location -57.6835S, 157.5224WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Macquarie Island region (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qvuu. Unique identifier: us6000qvuu. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:44:09 / 12:44 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/25 / 2025-07-29 00:44:09 / July 29, 2025 @ 12:44 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.435 km (20 miles). Exact location of event, depth 31.435 km, 157.5224° East, -57.6835° South.

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.5224° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -57.6835° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.435 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 2025-07-29 00:44:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-29 00:57:03 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.29 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000qvuu Id of event.
Event Code 6000qvuu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qvuu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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