Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 117 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 117 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand (73 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5.66 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/08/20 / 2020-08-29 08:29:51 / August 29, 2020 @ 8:29 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 08:29:51 / 8:29 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 177.1941° East, -36.8903° South, depth 5.66 km. Id of earthquake: us7000ber6. Event ids that are associated: us7000ber6.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 117 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	177.1941° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-36.8903° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	117 km NE of Maketu, 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	2020-08-29 08:29:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-08-29 09:11:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	6	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	342	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	1.112	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000ber6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ber6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ber6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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