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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Hastings in New Zealand


Earthquake location -39.8114S, 176.8801WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hastings in New Zealand. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/02/21 / 2021-02-24 17:35:15 / February 24, 2021 @ 5:35 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 17:35:15 / 5:35 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000dksc. Event ids that are associated: us6000dksc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 176.8801° East, latitude -39.8114° South, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Napier, Taradale, Hastings. Epicenter of the event was 19 km (12 miles) from Hastings (c. 61 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 19 km S of Hastings, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.8801° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.8114° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19 km S 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 2021-02-24 17:35:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-24 20:20:50 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 284 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 0.993 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 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 us6000dksc Id of event.
Event Code 6000dksc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dksc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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