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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Palmerston North in New Zealand

Posted by admin on August 19, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.3685S, 176.1368WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Palmerston North in New Zealand on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/08/17 / 2017-08-19 07:39:36 / August 19, 2017 @ 7:39 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:39:36 / 7:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 36.18 km, 176.1368° East, -40.3685° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a9q1. Id of event: us2000a9q1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36.18 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Otaki, Levin, Masterton (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Otaki (c. 6 100 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 44 km E of Palmerston North, 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 176.1368° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.3685° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km E of Palmerston North, 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 2017-08-19 07:39:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-08-19 08:28:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 299 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 0.321 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000a9q1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000a9q1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a9q1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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