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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Brooklyn in New Zealand

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Brooklyn in New Zealand. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:20:19 / 3:20 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20004ve3. Event ids that are associated: us20004ve3. Exact location of event, depth 57.21 km, 174.4846° East, -41.4608° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 29/01/16 / 2016-01-29 02:20:19 / January 29, 2016 @ 2:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.21 km (36 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 31 km (19 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Upper Hutt, Porirua (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 27 km SW of Brooklyn, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.4846° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.4608° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SW of Brooklyn, 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	2016-01-29 02:20:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-29 02:41:55	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	780	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	271	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	0.224	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	84	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	us20004ve3	Id of event.
Event Code	20004ve3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20004ve3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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