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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, Off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand


Earthquake location -35.0658S, 179.4105WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported Off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand (0 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 03:25:40 / August 8, 2015 @ 3:25 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 179.4105 East, latitude -35.0658 South, depth = 104.28 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:25:40 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 104.28 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100030dh. Id of event: us100030dh.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.4105° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.0658° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 104.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-08 03:25:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-29 02:32:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100030dh Id of event.
Event Code 100030dh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100030dh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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