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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Eltham in New Zealand


Earthquake location -39.1589S, 174.836WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Eltham in New Zealand. Id of earthquake: us70004evd. Event ids that are associated: us70004evd. Exact location, longitude 174.836° East, latitude -39.1589° South, depth = 212.15 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 13:00:30 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/06/19 / 2019-06-28 01:00:30 / June 28, 2019 @ 1:00 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 212.15 km (132 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wanganui, Hawera, New Plymouth. Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from New Plymouth (c. 49 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hawera (c. 11 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Waitara (c. 6 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 55 km ENE of Eltham, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.836° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.1589° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 212.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km ENE of Eltham, 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 2019-06-28 01:00:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 00:33:17 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 246 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 0.645 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us70004evd Id of event.
Event Code 70004evd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004evd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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