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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Rotorua in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.1771S, 176.3671WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Rotorua in New Zealand on Tuesday. Event id: us2000hg6g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hg6g. Exact location of event, depth 156.53 km, 176.3671° East, -38.1771° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/09/18 / 2018-09-18 01:36:22 / September 18, 2018 @ 1:36 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:36:22 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.53 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cambridge, Matamata, Taupo (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 11 km ESE of Rotorua, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.3671° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.1771° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km 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 2018-09-18 01:36:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-18 01:51:28 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 354 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 0.651 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us2000hg6g Id of event.
Event Code 2000hg6g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hg6g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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