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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Paraparaumu in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Paraparaumu in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 23/03/17 / 2017-03-23 07:51:50 / March 23, 2017 @ 7:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 19:51:50 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us20008tza. Event ids that are associated: us20008tza. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.97 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 62.97 km, 174.8887° East, -40.9817° South.

Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmerston North, Masterton, Levin (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 35 km (22 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop).

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

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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: 12 km SW of Paraparaumu, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.8887° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.9817° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.97 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km SW of Paraparaumu, 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	2017-03-23 07:51:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-23 08:14:10	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	301	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	0.355	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	66	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20008tza	Id of event.
Event Code	20008tza	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20008tza,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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