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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Kaharoa in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.9822S, 176.0971WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Kaharoa in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 21:05:18 / October 16, 2024 @ 9:05 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:05:18 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 176.0971° East, latitude -37.9822° South, depth = 182.603 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 182.603 km (113 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000nz6r. Event ids that are associated: us6000nz6r. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ngaruawahia, Taupo, Whakatane (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Hamilton (c. 152 600 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four 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. 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: 12 km W of Kaharoa, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.0971° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.9822° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 182.603 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km W of Kaharoa, 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 2024-10-16 21:05:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-16 21:33:21 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 259 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 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 us6000nz6r Id of event.
Event Code 6000nz6r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nz6r, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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