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Moderate earthquake, 5.9 mag strikes near Macquarie Island

Posted by admin on November 29, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -52.387S, 151.8477WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, west of Macquarie Island (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/11/25 / 2025-11-29 08:03:53 / November 29, 2025 @ 8:03 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rekp. Id of event: us7000rekp. The temblor was reported at 08:03:53 / 8:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 151.8477° East, -52.387° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 151.8477° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -52.387° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place west of Macquarie Island Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-11-29 08:03:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-29 08:23:45 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 536 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 61 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us7000rekp Id of event.
Event Code 7000rekp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000rekp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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