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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Christchurch in New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -43.5581S, 172.6985WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Christchurch in New Zealand. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.42 km (10 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/07/19 / 2019-07-20 11:51:42 / July 20, 2019 @ 11:51 am. Exact location, longitude 172.6985° East, latitude -43.5581° South, depth = 15.42 km. Id of earthquake: us70004pm9. Event ids that are associated: us70004pm9. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:51:42 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 6 km (4 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kaiapoi, Christchurch.

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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 5 km ESE of Christchurch, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.6985° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.5581° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ESE of Christchurch, 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 2019-07-20 11:51:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-20 12:33:09 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 168 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 0.151 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70004pm9 Id of event.
Event Code 70004pm9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004pm9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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