ALERT: Mag 8.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS

62 km W Nemba 06/02/2013 01:12 (UTC) Add to today's list of Earthquakes! Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 8:30 PM                 Centre Sismologique Euro-Mediterraneen               European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre                 Rapid Determination of Source Parameters               operated at LDG (Paris) and IGN (Madrid) ********************************************************************* ***********************  ALERT  MESSAGE  **************************** ********************************************************************* WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision. Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in an INFORMATION message. _____________________________________________________________________ EARTHQUAKE on 06/02/2013 at 01:12 (UTC) SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS                     62 km W  Nemba MAGNITUDE: Mw 8.0 Data provided by: BGSG GFZ  JMA  NEIC PTWC                          Latitude    =  10.68 S Longitude   = 165.14 E Origin Time =  01:12:25.8 (UTC) Depth       =  15 Km RMS         =   1.48 sec Gap         =  38 degrees 95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 8.0 Km                         - Semi minor = 7.4 Km                         - Azimuth of major axis = 118 degrees Number of data used = 116 Preliminary location computed on Wed Feb  6 01:30:20 2013 (UTC) Done by Pascal Roudil Comments : Message number: 1757 All magnitudes estimations : Mw8.2 (BGSG)  M 7.4 (GFZ)   Mw8.0 (JMA)   M 8.0 (NEIC)  Mw8.0 (PTWC)  Mw8.0 (PTWC)                              P.S.: For additional information, please contact EMSC at:              - Email: mazet@emsc-csem.org              - Web  : http://www.emsc-csem.org (maps available)              - Fax  : 33 1 69 26 70 00