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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Brooklyn in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 12, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.3847S, 174.4454WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Brooklyn in New Zealand. Unique identifier: us7000bmcu. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bmcu. The temblor was detected at 08:32:36 / 8:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 174.4454° East, -41.3847° South, depth 32.85 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.85 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/09/20 / 2020-09-12 08:32:36 / September 12, 2020 @ 8:32 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Upper Hutt, Porirua (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (18 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 27 km WSW of Brooklyn, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.4454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.3847° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km WSW of Brooklyn, 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 2020-09-12 08:32:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-12 09:05:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 9 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.9 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 203 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 0.209 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bmcu Id of event.
Event Code 7000bmcu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bmcu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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