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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Kaikoura in New Zealand


Earthquake location -42.6233S, 172.9791WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007ddg. Id of event: us10007ddg. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 15:58:21 / November 13, 2016 @ 3:58 pm. The temblor was reported at 03:58:21 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.34 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 172.9791° East, latitude -42.6233° South, depth = 11.34 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaiapoi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 62 km WSW of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.9791° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.6233° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 15:58:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 15:48:57 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 298 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 0.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us10007ddg Id of event.
Event Code 10007ddg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007ddg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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