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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Raoul Island in New Zealand


Earthquake location -27.9132S, -176.4495WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 206 km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand (128 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/07/16 / 2016-07-13 14:24:22 / July 13, 2016 @ 2:24 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:24:22 / 2:24 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 event, longitude -176.4495 West, latitude -27.9132 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us1000639i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000639i.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 206 km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.4495° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -27.9132° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 206km NE of Raoul Island, 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 2016-07-13 14:24:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-14 15:34:32 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 369 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 1.858 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000639i Id of event.
Event Code 1000639i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000639i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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