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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kaikoura in New Zealand


Earthquake location -42.4868S, 173.3307WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 30 km WSW of Kaikoura, New Zealand (19 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us10007dbr. Unique identifier: us10007dbr. Exact location of event, depth 9.09 km, 173.3307° East, -42.4868° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 13:59:42 / November 13, 2016 @ 1:59 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.09 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:59:42 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 30 km WSW of Kaikoura, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.3307° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.4868° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30km WSW 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 13:59:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-04 22:24:06 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 271 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 0.169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us10007dbr Id of event.
Event Code 10007dbr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dbr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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