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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Blenheim in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. The temblor was reported at 08:56:54 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000jm5t. Event ids that are associated: us2000jm5t. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/02/19 / 2019-02-23 20:56:54 / February 23, 2019 @ 8:56 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 174.1423° East, -41.7347° South, depth 17.35 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.35 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (45 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Richmond, Porirua, Nelson. Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.1423° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.7347° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17.35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km SSE of Blenheim, 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	2019-02-23 20:56:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-24 05:06:59	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	259	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	0.055	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	75	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	us2000jm5t	Id of event.
Event Code	2000jm5t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000jm5t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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