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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Karori in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.3377S, 174.4207WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Karori in New Zealand on Saturday. Unique identifier: us6000nwqg. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000nwqg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 48.54 km (30 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 174.4207 East, latitude -41.3377 South, depth = 48.54 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/10/24 / 2024-10-05 16:08:55 / October 5, 2024 @ 4:08 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:08:55 / 4:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Richmond, Nelson, Otaki. Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 27 km WSW of Karori, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.4207° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.3377° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km WSW of Karori, 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 2024-10-05 16:08:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-05 16:27:49 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 4.1 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 401 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 129 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.215 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nwqg Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwqg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwqg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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