Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Brooklyn in New Zealand

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Brooklyn in New Zealand on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude 174.4661 East, latitude -41.6172 South, depth = 18.95 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us10007p2y. Event ids that are associated: us10007p2y. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/01/17 / 2017-01-01 10:52:23 / January 1, 2017 @ 10:52 am. The temblor was reported at 22:52:23 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.95 km (12 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Upper Hutt, Porirua (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 45 km (28 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km SW of Brooklyn, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.4661° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.6172° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km SW of Brooklyn, 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	2017-01-01 10:52:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-23 13:05:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	298	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	0.23	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	72	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	us10007p2y	Id of event.
Event Code	10007p2y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007p2y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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