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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Masterton in New Zealand

Posted by admin on May 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.9602S, 175.4948WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Masterton in New Zealand. The temblor was detected at 07:15:32 / 7:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27.85 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 11/05/16 / 2016-05-11 19:15:32 / May 11, 2016 @ 7:15 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 27.85 km, 175.4948° East, -40.9602° South. Unique identifier: us10005glh. Ids that are associated to the event: us10005glh.

The epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Palmerston North, Petone.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 13 km W of Masterton, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.4948° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.9602° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km W of Masterton, 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 2016-05-11 19:15:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-11 20:54:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 312 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 0.491 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us10005glh Id of event.
Event Code 10005glh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005glh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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