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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Kaikoura in New Zealand


Earthquake location -42.2076S, 173.6032WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand on Monday. Id of earthquake: us10007dfd. Event ids that are associated: us10007dfd. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 173.6032 East, latitude -42.2076 South, depth = 14.18 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.18 km (9 miles). Global time and date of event 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 13:29:59 / November 13, 2016 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 01:29:59 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 23 km NNW of Kaikoura, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.6032° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.2076° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NNW 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 13:29:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-04 19:15:51 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 284 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 0.213 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us10007dfd Id of event.
Event Code 10007dfd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dfd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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