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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Raoul Island in New Zealand


Earthquake location -28.3363S, -176.3364WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 184 km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand (114 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/07/16 / 2016-07-21 22:51:48 / July 21, 2016 @ 10:51 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us20006gkx. Ids that are associated to the event: us20006gkx. Exact location of event, longitude -176.3364 West, latitude -28.3363 South, depth = 56.39 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56.39 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 10:51:48 / 10:51 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 184 km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.3364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -28.3363° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km 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 2016-07-21 22:51:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-21 23:14:43 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 354 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 1.665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us20006gkx Id of event.
Event Code 20006gkx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20006gkx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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