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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 8 km SSW of Christchurch, New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 21, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -43.6053S, 172.5898WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Christchurch in New Zealand on Monday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21.11 km (13 miles). Unique identifier: us70004q6k. Ids that are associated to the event: us70004q6k. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 172.5898 East, latitude -43.6053 South, depth = 21.11 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/07/19 / 2019-07-21 20:43:21 / July 21, 2019 @ 8:43 pm. The temblor was detected at 08:43:21 / 8:43 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 9 km (5 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ashburton (c. 30 100 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ashburton, Kaiapoi, Christchurch (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SSW of Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.5898° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.6053° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSW 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 2019-07-21 20:43:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-21 22:15:01 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 178 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 0.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 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 us70004q6k Id of event.
Event Code 70004q6k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70004q6k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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