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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Maketu in New Zealand

Posted by admin on December 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.2024S, 177.0756WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Maketu in New Zealand on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/20 / 2020-12-06 22:17:01 / December 6, 2020 @ 10:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 177.0756 East, latitude -37.2024 South, depth = 280.69 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cnqg. Id of event: us7000cnqg. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:17:01 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 280.69 km (174 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whakatane (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 two and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 83 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.0756° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.2024° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 280.69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 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 2020-12-06 22:17:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-06 23:28:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 271 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 1.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 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 us7000cnqg Id of event.
Event Code 7000cnqg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cnqg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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