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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand

Posted by admin on April 28, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -32.2414S, -179.6268WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 112 km SW of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (70 miles). Unique identifier: us70003bzt. Ids that are associated to the event: us70003bzt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.31 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.6268 West, latitude -32.2414 South, depth = 4.31 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/19 / 2019-04-16 16:48:17 / April 16, 2019 @ 4:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:48:17 / 4:48 am (local time epicenter).

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 five, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 112 km SW of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.6268° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.2414° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km SW of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2019-04-16 16:48:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-28 16:10:48 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 340 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 15.746 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us70003bzt Id of event.
Event Code 70003bzt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003bzt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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