A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 145 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (90 miles) on Thursday. Global time and date of event 07/03/19 / 2019-03-07 23:15:59 / March 7, 2019 @ 11:15 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jgks. Unique identifier: us1000jgks. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -178.3785° West, -32.664° South. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:15:59 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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