Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Hastings in New Zealand

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hastings in New Zealand on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/20 / 2020-07-16 01:42:03 / July 16, 2020 @ 1:42 am. Exact location of event, longitude 176.5758 East, latitude -40.2371 South, depth = 23.17 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:42:03 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000apfk. Event ids that are associated: us7000apfk. The epicenter was at a depth of 23.17 km (14 miles).

The epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hastings (c. 61 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napier, Palmerston North, Taradale. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days six 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.

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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 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: 70 km SSW of Hastings, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	176.5758° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.2371° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km SSW of Hastings, 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	2020-07-16 01:42:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-16 03:09:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	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	285	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	0.508	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	198	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	us7000apfk	Id of event.
Event Code	7000apfk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000apfk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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