Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Grenada North in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Grenada North in New Zealand. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:36:32 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, 174.8381° East, -41.1825° South. 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 35 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000n09b. Event ids that are associated: us6000n09b. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/05/24 / 2024-05-22 13:36:32 / May 22, 2024 @ 1:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 13 km (8 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 8 km (5 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 6 km (3 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim, Masterton, Levin. Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 0 km NNW of Grenada North, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.8381° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.1825° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	0 km NNW of Grenada North, 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	2024-05-22 13:36:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-29 09:19:00	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	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.162	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	114	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	us6000n09b	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n09b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n09b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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