A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 12:31:23 / November 13, 2016 @ 12:31 pm. Unique identifier: us10007dbf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007dbf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:31:23 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 174.1817 East, latitude -41.8775 South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Petone, Wellington, Blenheim (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 44 km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand.
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