A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Amberley in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/11/16 / 2016-11-15 00:26:26 / November 15, 2016 @ 12:26 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 172.7667° East, -42.7639° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:26:26 / 12:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007807. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007807.
Event epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Christchurch, Kaiapoi (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-five, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 44 km N of Amberley, New Zealand.
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