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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kaikoura in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 7, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -42.2889S, 173.5971WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand on Monday. Event id: us10007dcj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dcj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 17:01:21 / November 13, 2016 @ 5:01 pm. The temblor was reported at 05:01:21 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 173.5971° East, -42.2889° South, depth 13.25 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.25 km (8 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (56 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two hundred and six, in the last 10 days two hundred and six, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 14 km NNW of Kaikoura, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.5971° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.2889° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 17:01:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-07 19:43:34 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 312 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 0.134 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 us10007dcj Id of event.
Event Code 10007dcj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dcj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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