A 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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