A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 110 km E of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (68 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.7509 West, latitude -31.572 South, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 20/09/19 / 2019-09-20 01:59:17 / September 20, 2019 @ 1:59 am UTC/GMT. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:59:17 / 1:59 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us60005l6a. Unique identifier: us60005l6a.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 km E of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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