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Moderate earthquake, 5.8 mag strikes near Kaikoura in New Zealand

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 11:33:45 / November 13, 2016 @ 11:33 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ddw. Unique identifier: us10007ddw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.06 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 23:33:45 / 11:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 174.3037° East, -42.0511° South, depth 10.06 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Porirua, Lower Hutt, Petone. Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 112 km (69 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km NE of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.3037° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-42.0511° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km NE 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 11:33:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-03 08:06:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	5.01	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	518	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	0.309	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	125	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	us10007ddw	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ddw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ddw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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