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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Wanaka in New Zealand

Posted by admin on March 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -44.3968S, 168.6283WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Wanaka in New Zealand. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/03/16 / 2016-03-28 03:12:06 / March 28, 2016 @ 3:12 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.94 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20005cu5. Event ids that are associated: us20005cu5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:12:06 / 4:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.6283 East, latitude -44.3968 South, depth = 9.94 km.

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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Queenstown (c. 10 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 53 km NW of Wanaka, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6283° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -44.3968° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 53km NW of Wanaka, 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 2016-03-28 03:12:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-30 05:05:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 780 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 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 0.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us20005cu5 Id of event.
Event Code 20005cu5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20005cu5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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