Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Castlepoint in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Castlepoint in New Zealand. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/17 / 2017-09-12 07:10:35 / September 12, 2017 @ 7:10 am. Unique identifier: us2000asal. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000asal. Exact location of event, longitude 175.9237 East, latitude -40.6778 South, depth = 35.49 km. The temblor was reported at 19:10:35 / 7:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.49 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Upper Hutt, Paraparaumu, Otaki. Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (28 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Otaki (c. 6 100 pop).

Each 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 eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km NW of Castlepoint, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.9237° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.6778° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34km NW of Castlepoint, 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	2017-09-12 07:10:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-09-24 13:14:22	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	312	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	0.245	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	74	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	us2000asal	Id of event.
Event Code	2000asal	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000asal,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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