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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Wainui in New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 10, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.4639S, 178.7154WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Wainui in New Zealand. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 178.7154° East, -38.4639° South. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nqtf. Unique identifier: us6000nqtf. Global time and date of event 10/09/24 / 2024-09-10 04:17:52 / September 10, 2024 @ 4:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 04:17:52 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gisborne (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 61 km ENE of Wainui, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.7154° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.4639° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km ENE of Wainui, 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 2024-09-10 04:17:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-10 04:40:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 340 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 26 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.956 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 160 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 us6000nqtf Id of event.
Event Code 6000nqtf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nqtf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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