Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Turangi in New Zealand

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Turangi 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, depth 109.6 km, 175.7901° East, -38.9483° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/09/16 / 2016-09-07 11:29:45 / September 7, 2016 @ 11:29 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006mnj. Id of event: us10006mnj. The temblor was detected at 23:29:45 / 11:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 109.6 km (68 miles).

Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tokoroa, Taupo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 have been detected in the same area. 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 WNW of Turangi, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.7901° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-38.9483° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	109.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13km WNW of Turangi, 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	2016-09-07 11:29:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-07 11:50:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	0.588	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	57	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	us10006mnj	Id of event.
Event Code	10006mnj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10006mnj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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