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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Woodend in New Zealand


Earthquake location -43.4903S, 173.7496WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Woodend in New Zealand. Unique identifier: us10007de2. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007de2. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 173.7496° East, latitude -43.4903° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 12:23:02 / November 13, 2016 @ 12:23 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:23:02 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaiapoi, Christchurch (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km ESE of Woodend, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.7496° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.4903° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km ESE of Woodend, 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 12:23:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-03 12:39:50 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 385 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 1.084 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us10007de2 Id of event.
Event Code 10007de2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007de2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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