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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Blenheim in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10007shp. Event ids that are associated: us10007shp. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.49 km (12 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:19:21 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 00:19:21 / January 11, 2017 @ 12:19 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.2686 East, latitude -41.7131 South, depth = 19.49 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nelson, Upper Hutt, Porirua. Epicenter of the event was 63 km (39 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 34 km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.2686° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.7131° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km 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	2017-01-11 00:19:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-11 00:43:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	0.054	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	102	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	us10007shp	Id of event.
Event Code	10007shp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007shp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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