Quakedle
Puzzle #27 was 12 km ESE of Cherbourg, Australia.
Quakedle is an educational game. Event details and tsunami indicators must not be used for emergency decisions; follow official local authorities and current USGS notices.
USGS — Tectonic Plates of the Earth
How it scored
- Magnitude
- M4.9 — light class
- Magnitude type
- mww — W-phase moment magnitude
- Depth
- 10.0 km — shallow
- Region
- Australia
- Tsunami indicator
- USGS tsunami indicator not set
- Felt reports
- 885 DYFI reports
- PAGER alert
- No PAGER alert color reported
- Tectonic plates
- Australian Plate
- Tectonic context
- Most Australian earthquakes are intraplate events on faults within the Australian Plate rather than at its distant boundaries.
Also on the record
- USGS reports magnitude M4.9. Which standard descriptive class contains it?
- Light (M4.0–4.9)
- The hypocentral depth is 10.0 km. Which depth band is it in?
- Shallow (less than 70 km)
- USGS locates the event at “12 km ESE of Cherbourg, Australia”. Which broad authored region matches?
- Australia
- What does the USGS tsunami indicator say for this event?
- No — USGS did not set the event’s tsunami indicator; that is not a forecast.
- The event uses magnitude type “mww”. What does that code mean?
- Mww — W-phase moment magnitude