Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 43 km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, 174.3097° East, -41.7998° South, depth 15.8 km. Global time and date of event 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 14:24:11 / November 14, 2016 @ 2:24 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:24:11 / 2:24 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10007dgr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dgr.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porirua, Lower Hutt, Petone. The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 43 km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.3097° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.7998° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km SE 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	2016-11-14 14:24:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-08 15:43:30	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	0.335	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	us10007dgr	Id of event.
Event Code	10007dgr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007dgr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 43 km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand

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