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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Raumati Beach in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 2, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.8244S, 174.6399WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Raumati Beach in New Zealand on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73.15 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/24 / 2024-09-02 08:02:48 / September 2, 2024 @ 8:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 08:02:48 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000np7q. Event ids that are associated: us6000np7q. Exact location of event, longitude 174.6399 East, latitude -40.8244 South, depth = 73.15 km.

The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levin, Wellington, Lower Hutt. Nearby 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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 30 km WNW of Raumati Beach, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.6399° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.8244° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73.15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km WNW of Raumati Beach, 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 2024-09-02 08:02:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-02 13:59:13 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 188 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.486 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 94 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000np7q Id of event.
Event Code 6000np7q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000np7q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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