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14 September 2022

ALERT: Mw 6.9 SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS 113 km S Umetch 14/09/2022 11:04 (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 14/09/2022 at 11:04 (UTC)
SOUTHEAST OF LOYALTY ISLANDS 113 km S Umetch

MAGNITUDE: Mw 6.9

Data provided by: AT AUST DJA GFZ GNS KAN MAD PT PTWC SC3

Latitude = 21.21 S
Longitude = 170.19 E
Origin Time = 11:04:08.3 (UTC)
Depth = 143 Km
RMS = 1.22 sec
Gap = 61 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 5.2 Km
- Semi minor = 3.8 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 48 degrees

Number of data used = 199

Preliminary location computed on Wed Sep 14 11:17:22 2022 (UTC)
Done by Gilles Mazet-Roux

Comments :

Message number: 3282

All magnitudes estimations :
Mi7.0 (AT) Mw7.0 (AUST) M 6.8 (DJA) M 7.0 (GFZ) M
6.6 (GNS) Mw6.6 (KAN) Mw6.8 (MAD) Mi7.0 (PT) Mw
7.0 (PTWC) M 6.9 (SC3)

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