A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 102 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (63 miles). The temblor was detected at 04:45:07 / 4:45 am (local time epicenter). 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, -178.1753° West, -32.1153° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/03/19 / 2019-03-08 16:45:07 / March 8, 2019 @ 4:45 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000jgnh. Unique identifier: us1000jgnh.
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 twenty-five, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 102 km SE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.
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