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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Blenheim in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.787S, 174.4717WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. All ids that are associated to the event: us100077hf. Unique identifier: us100077hf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:49:10 / 11:49 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 23:49:10 / November 13, 2016 @ 11:49 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 174.4717° East, -41.787° South, depth 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Upper Hutt, Porirua (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 52 km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.4717° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.787° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52km SE of Blenheim, 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 2016-11-13 23:49:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-14 00:05:59 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 416 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 0.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 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 us100077hf Id of event.
Event Code 100077hf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100077hf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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