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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 47 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 1, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.9448S, 173.9374WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 01:56:06 / November 14, 2016 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dfq. Id of event: us10007dfq. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:56:06 / 1:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 173.9374 East, latitude -41.9448 South, depth = 8.607 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8.607 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twelve, in the last 10 days one hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.9374° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.9448° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.607 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km S 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 2016-11-14 01:56:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-01 02:09:48 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 222 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 us10007dfq Id of event.
Event Code 10007dfq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dfq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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