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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 51 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.9792S, 174.0158WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.0158 East, latitude -41.9792 South, depth = 15.35 km. The temblor was detected at 04:44:03 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.35 km (10 miles). Event id: us10007der. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007der. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 16:44:03 / November 13, 2016 @ 4:44 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 52 km (32 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 51 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.0158° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.9792° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km S of Blenheim, 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 16:44:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 18:16:12 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 259 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 0.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 118 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 us10007der Id of event.
Event Code 10007der An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007der, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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