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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Whitianga in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -35.429S, 178.3525WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 285 km ENE of Whitianga, New Zealand (177 miles). The temblor was detected at 19:31:58 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us100048k8. Unique identifier: us100048k8. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 07:31:58 / December 21, 2015 @ 7:31 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 178.3525 East, latitude -35.429 South, depth = 201.73 km. 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 201.73 km (125 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 285 km ENE of Whitianga, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.3525° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -35.429° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 201.73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 285km ENE of Whitianga, 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 2015-12-21 07:31:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 07:51:12 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 354 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 2.129 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us100048k8 Id of event.
Event Code 100048k8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048k8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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