Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand


Earthquake location -29.967S, -177.5363WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.5363 West, latitude -29.967 South, depth = 86.675 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 86.675 km (54 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/11/24 / 2024-11-02 11:24:32 / November 2, 2024 @ 11:24 am. Unique identifier: us6000p6jn. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000p6jn. The temblor was detected at 11:24:32 / 11:24 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

Did you feel anything?

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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.5363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.967° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 86.675 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands, 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 2024-11-02 11:24:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-22 13:30:59 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 271 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us6000p6jn Id of event.
Event Code 6000p6jn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000p6jn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply