A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. Exact location of event, longitude 173.9341 East, latitude -42.3519 South, depth = 17.03 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:43:44 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 05:43:44 / May 12, 2018 @ 5:43 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e3hg. Unique identifier: us1000e3hg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.03 km (11 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 21 km ENE of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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