Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Kaikoura in New Zealand

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 41 km SW of Kaikoura, New Zealand (25 miles) on Monday. The temblor was detected at 11:08:59 / 11:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 173.2639 East, latitude -42.6127 South, depth = 25.78 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.78 km (16 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000i6te. Unique identifier: us2000i6te. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/11/18 / 2018-11-04 23:08:59 / November 4, 2018 @ 11:08 pm.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 41 km SW of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	173.2639° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-42.6127° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km SW of Kaikoura, 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	2018-11-04 23:08:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-07 06:58:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	222	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	0.282	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us2000i6te	Id of event.
Event Code	2000i6te	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000i6te,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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