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Minor earthquake 3.7 mag, 16 km E of Christchurch, New Zealand


Earthquake location -43.5275S, 172.8426WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Christchurch in New Zealand. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.34 km (13 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g5if. Id of event: us2000g5if. Exact location of event, longitude 172.8426 East, latitude -43.5275 South, depth = 21.34 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:10:28 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 09:10:28 / July 15, 2018 @ 9:10 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaiapoi, Christchurch (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 16 km E of Christchurch, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.8426° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.5275° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km E of Christchurch, 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 2018-07-15 09:10:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-15 23:00:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 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 212 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 0.225 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000g5if Id of event.
Event Code 2000g5if An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000g5if, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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