A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 18:16:36 / November 13, 2016 @ 6:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 173.2285 East, latitude -42.6355 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:16:36 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100077d9. Id of event: us100077d9.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaiapoi (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days seventeen 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km SW of Kaikoura, New Zealand.
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