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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Blenheim in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.8996S, 174.1242WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us100077ju. Unique identifier: us100077ju. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 03:44:26 / November 14, 2016 @ 3:44 am. The temblor was picked up at 15:44:26 / 3:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 174.1242 East, latitude -41.8996 South, depth = 12.71 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.71 km (8 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Blenheim (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 44 km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.1242° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.8996° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SSE 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 03:44:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-02 00:41:26 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 259 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 0.85 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 us100077ju Id of event.
Event Code 100077ju An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100077ju, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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