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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Upper Hutt in New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 9, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.1612S, 175.0922WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Upper Hutt in New Zealand on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.97 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 06:56:13 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 175.0922° East, latitude -41.1612° South, depth = 8.97 km. Unique identifier: us100098ed. Ids that are associated to the event: us100098ed. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 09/07/17 / 2017-07-09 18:56:13 / July 9, 2017 @ 6:56 pm UTC/GMT.

The epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop). 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 Levin, Masterton, Otaki.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one hundred and one 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km SE of Upper Hutt, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.0922° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.1612° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km SE of Upper Hutt, 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 2017-07-09 18:56:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-09 19:14:32 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 246 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 0.28 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us100098ed Id of event.
Event Code 100098ed An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100098ed, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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