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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Macquarie Island region


Earthquake location -57.6013S, 157.9052WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Macquarie Island region (0 miles). Event id: us6000qz6q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qz6q. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/07/25 / 2025-07-28 22:48:54 / July 28, 2025 @ 10:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:48:54 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.693 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 157.9052° East, -57.6013° South, depth 36.693 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light 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, 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 157.9052° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -57.6013° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.693 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 2025-07-28 22:48:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-11 20:45:31 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 326 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us6000qz6q Id of event.
Event Code 6000qz6q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qz6q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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