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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kawerau in New Zealand

Posted by admin on March 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.2012S, 176.6941WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Kawerau in New Zealand. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.88 km (25 miles). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:48:53 / 12:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/03/16 / 2016-03-05 11:48:53 / March 5, 2016 @ 11:48 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10004wbn. Unique identifier: us10004wbn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.6941 East, latitude -38.2012 South, depth = 39.88 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Matamata, Taupo, Tauranga (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 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 one and in the last 365 days six 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 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km S of Kawerau, 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 176.6941° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.2012° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Kawerau, 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 2016-03-05 11:48:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-18 08:16:06 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 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129 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 us10004wbn Id of event.
Event Code 10004wbn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004wbn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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