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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Gisborne in New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.3887S, 178.6657WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Gisborne in New Zealand. The temblor was reported at 01:39:31 / 1:39 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/17 / 2017-09-25 13:39:31 / September 25, 2017 @ 1:39 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 178.6657 East, latitude -38.3887 South, depth = 23 km. Id of earthquake: us2000aubt. Event ids that are associated: us2000aubt.

Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 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 Gisborne.

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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 64 km ENE of Gisborne, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.6657° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.3887° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km ENE of Gisborne, 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 2017-09-25 13:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-25 14:54:46 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 340 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 0.872 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 us2000aubt Id of event.
Event Code 2000aubt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000aubt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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