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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Blenheim in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand on Friday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:57:16 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 174.3069° East, -41.7069° South, depth 21.21 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/02/20 / 2020-02-13 15:57:16 / February 13, 2020 @ 3:57 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70007ph5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007ph5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.21 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Upper Hutt, Porirua, Lower Hutt (min 5000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 36 km SE of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.3069° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.7069° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.21 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km SE of Blenheim, 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	2020-02-13 15:57:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-13 21:44:39	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	312	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	0.081	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.79 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143	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	us70007ph5	Id of event.
Event Code	70007ph5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007ph5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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