A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008e2p. Unique identifier: us10008e2p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/04/17 / 2017-04-03 14:58:00 / April 3, 2017 @ 2:58 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.59 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 173.6947 East, latitude -42.1726 South, depth = 15.59 km. The temblor was picked up at 02:58:00 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blenheim (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km N of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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