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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Kaikoura in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 3, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -42.1944S, 173.7986WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 00:52:54 / 12:52 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007dcv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dcv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 12:52:54 / November 13, 2016 @ 12:52 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 173.7986 East, latitude -42.1944 South, depth = 10 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blenheim. Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km NNE of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.7986° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.1944° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NNE of Kaikoura, 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 2016-11-13 12:52:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-03 13:50:55 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 369 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 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us10007dcv Id of event.
Event Code 10007dcv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dcv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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