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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Brooklyn in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.6293S, 174.4778WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Brooklyn in New Zealand. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:54:12 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us10007bfs. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007bfs. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.4778 East, latitude -41.6293 South, depth = 21.57 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 15:54:12 / November 22, 2016 @ 3:54 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.57 km (13 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Upper Hutt, Porirua. Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventy-six, in the past 30 days seventy-six and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km SSW of Brooklyn, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.4778° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.6293° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSW of Brooklyn, 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 2016-11-22 15:54:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-22 17:16:25 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 298 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 0.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us10007bfs Id of event.
Event Code 10007bfs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007bfs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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