A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 137 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (85 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/15 / 2015-07-03 15:53:40 / July 3, 2015 @ 3:53 pm. The temblor was detected at 03:53:40 / 3:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -177.9331° West, latitude -32.3628° South, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20002yyr. Unique identifier: us20002yyr. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.
In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 137 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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