Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Taupo in New Zealand

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Taupo in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 15/04/16 / 2016-04-15 00:20:23 / April 15, 2016 @ 12:20 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005kyn. Unique identifier: us20005kyn. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 86.17 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 176.3535 East, latitude -38.8319 South, depth = 86.17 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:20:23 / 12:20 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taradale, Napier, Kawerau. Epicenter of the event was 78 km (48 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 28 km SE of Taupo, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	176.3535° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-38.8319° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	86.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km SE of Taupo, 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	2016-04-15 00:20:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-23 23:35:24	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	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	284	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	0.35	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	111	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	us20005kyn	Id of event.
Event Code	20005kyn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005kyn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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