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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Kaikoura in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -42.2957S, 174.093WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us10007dih. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007dih. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.18 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:43:56 / 4:43 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/16 / 2016-11-15 16:43:56 / November 15, 2016 @ 4:43 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 174.093° East, -42.2957° South, depth 16.18 km.

Close 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 Blenheim. Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 36 km ENE of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.093° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.2957° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km ENE 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 2016-11-15 16:43:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-11 21:14:40 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 0.427 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us10007dih Id of event.
Event Code 10007dih An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dih, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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