Magnitude 2.0, Tue Jul 10 2012 3:05 AM

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Origin data

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PublicID 2012p515213
UTC Time 2012-07-09T15:05:36Z
Latitude -39.29 (± 2.8 km)
Longitude 174.99 (± 1.7 km)
Depth 16 km (± 3 km)
Depth Type free
Earth Model iasp91
Used Phase Count 31
Used Station Count 30
Standard Error 0.63 (s)
Azimuthal Gap 84.98 (degrees)
Minimum Distance 0.24 (degrees)

Origin history map

Map showing stations with picks used to locate the earthquake. Stations with picks that have a zero weight in the solution are shown as small grey circles. Those with a higher weight are shown as larger circles. The quake is shown by the largest circle.

Map of New Zealand.

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Type Magnitude Station Count
Preferred (M) 2.0  
MLv 2.0 (± 0.3) 24
M 2.0 24
Minimum distance 0.24 (degree)  

GeoNet combines magnitudes into a summary magnitude, M, which consists of a weighted average of the individual magnitudes and attempts to be a best possible compromise between all magnitudes for a range of earthquake sizes. Summary magnitude for GeoNet is then defined as:

M = (2 * MLv + (0.4 * number_of stations(Mw(mB)) - 1) * Mw(mB)) / (2 + (0.4 * number_of_stations(Mw(mB)) - 1))

Where MLv is local magnitude calculated on the vertical component and Mw(mB) is a Mw estimation based of mB by Bormann and Saul (2008).

Peak Residuals

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-3.0-2.0-1.00.01.02.03.0residual (s)012Distance (degrees)Pick Residuals

Station Magnitudes (MLv)

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0.01.02.03.04.0Magnitude12Distance (degrees)Station Magnitudes (MLv)

Magnitude Residuals (MLv)

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-1.00.01.0Residual12Distance (degrees)Magnitude Residuals (MLv)