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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 59 km SW of Hastings, New Zealand

Posted by admin on February 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -39.9462S, 176.2841WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Hastings in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:43:46 / 7:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 176.2841° East, latitude -39.9462° South, depth = 18.69 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.69 km (12 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/18 / 2018-02-18 07:43:46 / February 18, 2018 @ 7:43 am. Id of earthquake: us2000d43z. Event ids that are associated: us2000d43z.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Napier, Palmerston North, Taradale (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hastings (c. 61 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop).

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 two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km SW of Hastings, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.2841° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.9462° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km SW of Hastings, 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 2018-02-18 07:43:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-18 08:00:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 342 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 0.733 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us2000d43z Id of event.
Event Code 2000d43z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d43z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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