Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag was detected near Kaikoura in New Zealand

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. All ids that are associated to the event: us100077ky. Unique identifier: us100077ky. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 06:47:52 / November 14, 2016 @ 6:47 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 173.8551° East, -42.353° South, depth 14.83 km. The temblor was detected at 18:47:52 / 6:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.83 km (9 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km ENE of Kaikoura, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	173.8551° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-42.353° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km ENE of Kaikoura, 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	2016-11-14 06:47:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-14 07:11:49	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.7	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	519	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	0.242	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.95 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us100077ky	Id of event.
Event Code	100077ky	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us100077ky,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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