A 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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