A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. Event id: us100077i8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100077i8. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 12:54:20 / 12:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 00:54:20 / November 14, 2016 @ 12:54 am. Exact location, longitude 173.9861° East, latitude -42.3517° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 93 km (58 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blenheim.
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km ENE of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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