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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Rotorua in New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.1909S, 176.4102WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Rotorua in New Zealand. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:10:20 / 8:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 08:10:20 / July 8, 2018 @ 8:10 am. Exact location of event, depth 172.22 km, 176.4102° East, -38.1909° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 172.22 km (107 miles). Unique identifier: us2000fzna. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fzna.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cambridge, Matamata, Taupo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 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 one and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 15 km ESE of Rotorua, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.4102° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.1909° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 172.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km ESE of Rotorua, 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 2018-07-08 08:10:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-08 08:31:02 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 284 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 0.616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 66 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 us2000fzna Id of event.
Event Code 2000fzna An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fzna, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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