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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Pahiatua in New Zealand

Posted by admin on May 20, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.4856S, 175.7775WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Pahiatua in New Zealand. Event id: us6000mwde. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mwde. Exact location of earthquake, 175.7775° East, -40.4856° South, depth 30.014 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 30.014 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/24 / 2024-05-04 22:24:49 / May 4, 2024 @ 10:24 pm. The temblor was detected at 22:24:49 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Upper Hutt, Wanganui, Paraparaumu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 20 km (13 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop). 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km WSW of Pahiatua, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.7775° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.4856° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.014 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 km WSW of Pahiatua, 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 2024-05-04 22:24:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-12 04:26:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.2 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 301 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.231 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us6000mwde Id of event.
Event Code 6000mwde An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mwde, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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