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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Cook Strait, New Zealand

Posted by admin on February 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.898S, 174.2167WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, Cook Strait, New Zealand kilometers (0 miles) from Cook Strait, New Zealand. Exact location of event, longitude 174.2167 East, latitude -41.898 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/02/16 / 2016-02-22 03:09:56 / February 22, 2016 @ 3:09 am. Event id: us10004rm8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004rm8. The temblor was reported at 03:09:56 / 3:09 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lower Hutt, Petone, Wellington (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Cook Strait, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.2167° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.898° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Cook Strait, 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 2016-02-22 03:09:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-22 03:26:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 340 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 0.148 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us10004rm8 Id of event.
Event Code 10004rm8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004rm8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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