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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Te Anau in New Zealand


Earthquake location -45.1766S, 167.0781WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 56 km WNW of Te Anau, New Zealand (35 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 09:54:08 / 9:54 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.24 km (19 miles). Id of earthquake: us20008ssd. Event ids that are associated: us20008ssd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 167.0781 East, latitude -45.1766 South, depth = 30.24 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/03/17 / 2017-03-11 21:54:08 / March 11, 2017 @ 9:54 pm.

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

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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. 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: 56 km WNW of Te Anau, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.0781° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -45.1766° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km WNW of Te Anau, 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 2017-03-11 21:54:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-24 23:56:44 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 284 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 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 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 us20008ssd Id of event.
Event Code 20008ssd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008ssd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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