M 4.6 earthquake – south of Australia
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Local time: Mar 25, 1998 · 18:19 (UTC+11)
LightShallow · 10 km
Reviewed by a seismologist
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- Magnitude
- 4.6body-wave magnitude (mb)
- Depth
- 10 kmShallow earthquake
- Epicenter
- -62.970, 144.3372,245 km from Hobart
- Energy released
- 120 tons of TNTless than one Hiroshima bomb
- Felt reports
- —"Did You Feel It?" responses
- Shaking intensity
- —not estimated
- Aftershocks
- 1M2.5+ within 30 km, up to 60 days
- Significance
- 326USGS score, 0–1,000+
Not rare around here
An earthquake at least as strong struck within 300 km on Mar 25, 1998.
How strong was it?
Light earthquake. It released 120 tons of TNT, 4 times less than a magnitude 5.0. Bars use the magnitude scale: every step is about 32 times more energy.
Aftershocks
1 earthquakes of M2.5+ within 30 km in the 60 days after.
The strongest earthquakes within 300 km
Since 1900.
In the week before
Earthquakes within 30 km in the 7 days before this one: possible foreshocks.