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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -32.3346S, -178.6576WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 102 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.6576 West, latitude -32.3346 South, depth = 54.24 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/16 / 2016-11-16 10:47:55 / November 16, 2016 @ 10:47 am. Id of earthquake: us10007djc. Event ids that are associated: us10007djc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:47:55 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.24 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.6576° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.3346° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102km SSE of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2016-11-16 10:47:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-15 13:49:21 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 3.142 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us10007djc Id of event.
Event Code 10007djc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007djc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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