A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Wairoa in New Zealand. Exact location, longitude 178.0561° East, latitude -39.2491° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 13:42:41 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/04/19 / 2019-04-03 01:42:41 / April 3, 2019 @ 1:42 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000k9fy. Unique identifier: us2000k9fy.
Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gisborne.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. 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: 64 km ESE of Wairoa, New Zealand.
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