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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Te Anau in New Zealand

Posted by admin on March 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -45.0163S, 167.4859WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Te Anau in New Zealand. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 118.31 km (74 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/16 / 2016-03-14 12:09:07 / March 14, 2016 @ 12:09 pm. Id of earthquake: us10004xdr. Event ids that are associated: us10004xdr. The temblor was picked up at 01:09:07 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.4859 East, latitude -45.0163 South, depth = 118.31 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 92 km (57 miles) from Queenstown (c. 10 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Queenstown. Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km NNW of Te Anau, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.4859° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -45.0163° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 118.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km NNW of Te Anau, 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 2016-03-14 12:09:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-27 07:48:33 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 298 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 0.506 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 63 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 us10004xdr Id of event.
Event Code 10004xdr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004xdr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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