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05 December 2018

ALERT: Mw 7.6 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS 150 km E Kurine 05/12/2018 04:18 (UTC)

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Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
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WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in
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EARTHQUAKE on 05/12/2018 at 04:18 (UTC)
SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS 150 km E Kurine

MAGNITUDE: Mw 7.6

Data provided by: AT AUST BUD DJA GFZ INGV KAN MAD PT PTWC RS
NC SC3

Latitude = 21.94 S
Longitude = 169.49 E
Origin Time = 04:18:11.4 (UTC)
Depth = 30 Km
RMS = 1.50 sec
Gap = 27 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 7.3 Km
- Semi minor = 7.1 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 68 degrees

Number of data used = 133

Preliminary location computed on Wed Dec 5 04:38:26 2018 (UTC)
Done by Julien VERGOZ

Comments :

Message number: 2722

All magnitudes estimations :
Mi7.6 (AT) M 7.5 (AUST) M 7.5 (BUD) M 7.5 (DJA) M
7.5 (GFZ) Mw7.5 (INGV) Mw7.0 (KAN) Mi7.6 (PT) Mw
7.6 (PTWC) M 7.6 (RSNC) M 7.4 (SC3)

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