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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Palmerston North in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 13, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.2611S, 175.8898WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Palmerston North in New Zealand on Friday. Unique identifier: us2000itd1. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000itd1. Exact location of earthquake, 175.8898° East, -40.2611° South, depth 35 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:05:16 / 8:05 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/12/18 / 2018-12-13 20:05:16 / December 13, 2018 @ 8:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otaki, Wanganui, Masterton (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Otaki (c. 6 100 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 25 km ENE of Palmerston North, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.8898° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.2611° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km ENE of Palmerston North, 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 2018-12-13 20:05:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-13 23:22:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 0.464 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us2000itd1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000itd1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000itd1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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