Earthquake Magnitude 5.1: Australia & New Zealand - Chatham Islands Waitangi

Earthquake rattles North Island

Updated at 7:58 am on 24 September 2015

An earthquake has been felt widely across the North Island this morning.

Where the quake was felt.

Photo: GeoNet

The 5.1 magnitude quake was 167 km deep, centred 25 km south-east of Tokoroa, GNS said.
It struck at about 6.48am and has been felt in Hawke's Bay, Manawatu-Wanganui, Wellington and in the top of the South Island.
GNS seismologist John Ristau said the depth of the quake was probably the reason it was felt so widely.

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1. M 4.9 - 255km SE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand

   2015-09-24 22:30:31 UTC 10.0 km

2. M 4.8 - 213km SSE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand

   2015-09-24 17:15:24 UTC 9.6 km

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September 24 2015 05:18 PM	2.7	Australia & New-Zealand	New Zealand	Canterbury	Culverden				GEONET
September 24 2015 05:17 PM	2.6	Australia & New-Zealand	New Zealand	Hawke's Bay	Taradale				GEONET
September 24 2015 05:15 PM	5.1	Australia & New-Zealand	New Zealand	Chatham Islands	Waitangi				EMSC

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Preliminary Earthquake Report

Notice! This is a computer-generated report - this event has not reviewed by a seismologist! EDIS Number: EQ-20150924-514643-NZL Magnitude: 5.1 Mercalli scale: 5 Date-Time [UTC]: 24 September, 2015 at 17:15:31 UTC Local Date/Time: Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 06:15 at night at epicenter Coordinate: 178° 37.800, 33° 15.600 Depth: 42 km (26.10 miles) Hypocentrum: Shallow depth Class: Moderate Region: Chatham Islands Country: New Zealand Location: 1,210 km (0.62 miles) E of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand Source: EMSC Generated Tsunami: Not Damage: Not or no data The potential impact of the earthquake Almost everyone feels movement. Sleeping people are awakened. Doors swing open or close. Dishes are broken. Pictures on the wall move. Small objects move or are turned over. Trees might shake. Liquids might spill out of open containers.

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Last recorded earthquakes 

Preliminary Earthquake Report

Elapsed time Event date Location Distance Magnitude Details 9 days ago. 15th September 2015 at 11:47 PM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 38.35 miles 4.9 9 days ago. 15th September 2015 at 11:47 PM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 38.57 miles 4.9 10 days ago. 14th September 2015 at 02:53 PM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 16.96 miles 4.9 10 days ago. 14th September 2015 at 02:53 PM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 8.69 miles 4.9 12 days ago. 13th September 2015 at 07:05 AM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 12.41 miles 4.8 14 days ago. 11th September 2015 at 08:47 AM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 15.78 miles 5.0 14 days ago. 11th September 2015 at 08:47 AM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 15.65 miles 5 16 days ago. 09th September 2015 at 04:11 AM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 14.44 miles 4.7 16 days ago. 09th September 2015 at 04:11 AM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 14.23 miles 4.7 16 days ago. 08th September 2015 at 07:10 PM Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand 4.97 miles 4.8

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Earthquake Magnitude 3.8 , City of Shantou in Guangdong province, China.

 

 

 

Hong Kong gets a jolt as earthquake hits southeastern China

 

PUBLISHED : Friday, 25 September, 2015, 1:21am

UPDATED : Friday, 25 September, 2015, 1:32am

 

Danny Mok

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Some mainland residents at an unknown location run for cover.

Hongkongers reported feeling a tremor late last night when an earthquake of magnitude 3.8 shook the southeastern mainland city of Shantou in Guangdong province.
The Hong Kong Observatory said the earthquake struck at 10.57pm near the coast of southeastern China.
The epicenter was located about 110km west-southwest of Shantou, or about 180km east-northeast of Hong Kong.
The depth of the focus was 16km, according to the mainland’s Earthquake Networks Center.
As of 1am today, no casualties were reported by mainland media.

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September 24 2015 04:50 PM

4.7

Asia

China

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Zangguy

USGS-RSOE

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USGS

M 4.7 - 12km SSE of Banqiao, China

DYFI? - I

Time

2015-09-22 18:01:37 UTC

Location

32.517°N 105.384°E

Depth

14.1 km

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Preliminary Earthquake Report

Notice! This is a computer-generated report - this event has not reviewed by a seismologist! EDIS Number: EQ-20150924-514636-CN Magnitude: 4.7 Mercalli scale: 4 Date-Time [UTC]: 24 September, 2015 at 16:50:41 UTC Local Date/Time: Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 21:50 in the evening at epicenter Coordinate: 78° 9.072, 37° 33.576 Depth: 36.88 km (22.92 miles) Hypocentrum: Shallow depth Class: Light Region: Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu Country: China Location: 69.00 km (42.87 miles) S of Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China Source: USGS Generated Tsunami: Not Damage: Not or no data The potential impact of the earthquake Most people indoors feel movement. Hanging objects swing. Dishes, windows, and doors rattle. The earthquake feels like a heavy truck hitting the walls. A few people outdoors may feel movement. Parked cars rock.

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September 24 2015 04:50 PM

4.7

Asia

China

Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Zangguy

EMSC

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 Last recorded earthquakes

Elapsed time Event date Location Distance Magnitude Details 15 hours ago. 24th September 2015 at 04:50 PM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 11.15 miles 4.7 7 days ago. 17th September 2015 at 02:50 PM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 5.19 miles 4.8 62 days ago. 24th July 2015 at 01:23 PM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 6.44 miles 5.0 62 days ago. 24th July 2015 at 01:23 PM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 4.52 miles 5 72 days ago. 14th July 2015 at 12:29 PM Shache, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 23.29 miles 4.6 73 days ago. 14th July 2015 at 08:07 AM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 9.09 miles 4.5 73 days ago. 14th July 2015 at 06:07 AM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 9.20 miles 4.5 77 days ago. 09th July 2015 at 05:54 PM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 27.27 miles 4 81 days ago. 05th July 2015 at 03:12 PM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 6.88 miles 4.4 84 days ago. 03th July 2015 at 05:11 AM Zangguy, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China 11.57 miles 4.8

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Researchers : "the [destructive] changes in bird habitats and behavior between now and 2070 will equal the evolutionary and adaptive shifts that normally occur over tens of thousands of years."

 

 

SF Gate

The silence of the birds: When nature gets quiet, be very afraid

By Mark Morford on September 14, 2015 5:27 PM


Image 2 of 9 | The silence of the birds: Be afraid
Researchers say "the [destructive] changes in bird habitats and behavior between now and 2070 will equal the evolutionary and adaptive shifts that normally occur over tens of thousands of years." Yay humans!
Brutal wildfire images too much to bear? Fatigued by non-stop news of extreme weather, record-low snowpack, emaciated polar bears, unprecedented this and fast-receding that, a natural world that appears to be going more or less insane?
Maybe you need some quiet. Get outside, sit yourself down and let nature’s innate healing powers soothe your aching heart.
Sounds good, right? Sounds refreshing. Sounds… well, not quite right at all. Not anymore.
Have you heard? Or more accurately, not heard? Vicious fires and vanishing ice floes aside, there’s yet another ominous sign that all is not well with the natural world: it’s getting quiet out there. Too quiet.
Behold, this bit over in Outside magazine, profiling the sweet, touching life and times of 77-year-old bioacoustician and soundscape artist Bernie Kraus, author of “The Great Animal Orchestra” (2012), TED talker, ballet scorer, and a “pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology.”
Krause, last written about on SFGate back in 2007, is a man whose passion and profession has been making field recordings of the world’s “biophony” for going on 45 years, setting up his sensitive equipment in roughly the same places around the world to record nature’s (normally) stunningly diverse aural symphony – all the birds, bees, beavers, wolves, babbling streams, fluttering wings, the brush of trees and the rush of rivers – truly, the very pulse and thrum of life itself.

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