A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Whakatane in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 176.9704 East, latitude -37.4465 South, depth = 106.37 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 106.37 km (66 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/05/16 / 2016-05-09 07:27:04 / May 9, 2016 @ 7:27 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005fzz. Id of event: us10005fzz. The temblor was detected at 19:27:04 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kawerau, Tauranga, Whakatane (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 56 km N of Whakatane, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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