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Moderate earthquake 5.4 mag, south of the Kermadec Islands

Posted by admin on October 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -34.0533S, -178.768WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported south of the Kermadec Islands (0 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: us6000rha2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rha2. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 15/10/25 / 2025-10-15 13:07:01 / October 15, 2025 @ 1:07 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -178.768 West, latitude -34.0533 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 13:07:01 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: south of the Kermadec Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.768° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.0533° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Kermadec Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-15 13:07:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-15 13:34:22 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 5.784 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 449 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 49 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us6000rha2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rha2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rha2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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