Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Patea in New Zealand

A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Patea in New Zealand. The temblor was detected at 07:23:25 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mv4m. Unique identifier: us6000mv4m. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 106.517 km (66 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 07:23:25 / April 30, 2024 @ 7:23 am. Exact location of earthquake, 174.2331° East, -40.2603° South, depth 106.517 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Paraparaumu, Levin, Otaki (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hawera (c. 11 100 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Otaki (c. 6 100 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 59 km SSW of Patea, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.2331° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.2603° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	106.517 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59 km SSW of Patea, 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	2024-04-30 07:23:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-03 08:05:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	24	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	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	350	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.102	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	71	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	us6000mv4m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mv4m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mv4m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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