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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Patea in New Zealand

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Earthquake location -40.2474S, 174.1878WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Patea in New Zealand. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 88.699 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 08:34:11 / 8:34 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000mtxm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mtxm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/04/24 / 2024-04-26 08:34:11 / April 26, 2024 @ 8:34 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 174.1878° East, -40.2474° South, depth 88.699 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wanganui, Hawera (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hawera (c. 11 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 59 km SSW of Patea, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.1878° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.2474° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88.699 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 2024-04-26 08:34:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-26 09:35:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.3 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 285 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.13 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us6000mtxm Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtxm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtxm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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