A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Queenstown in New Zealand. The temblor was reported at 09:07:27 / 9:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 167.7971° East, latitude -44.5599° South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us70005p3h. Unique identifier: us70005p3h. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/19 / 2019-09-30 21:07:27 / September 30, 2019 @ 9:07 pm.
Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Queenstown (c. 10 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Queenstown (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 86 km NW of Queenstown, New Zealand.
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