A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Te Anau in New Zealand. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/20 / 2020-04-18 07:51:05 / April 18, 2020 @ 7:51 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.36 km (46 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008z7v. Id of event: us70008z7v. Exact location of event, depth 74.36 km, 167.5322° East, -44.9753° South. The temblor was picked up at 19:51:05 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Queenstown. Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Queenstown (c. 10 400 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km NNW of Te Anau, New Zealand.
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