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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Stratford in New Zealand

Posted by admin on November 26, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location -39.1308S, 174.7776WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Stratford in New Zealand. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/24 / 2024-11-26 14:46:47 / November 26, 2024 @ 2:46 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 211.559 km (131 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:46:47 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.7776 East, latitude -39.1308 South, depth = 211.559 km. Id of earthquake: us7000nu9b. Event ids that are associated: us7000nu9b.

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wanganui, Hawera, New Plymouth (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from New Plymouth (c. 49 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Hawera (c. 11 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Waitara (c. 6 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km ENE of Stratford, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.7776° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.1308° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 211.559 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km ENE of Stratford, 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 2024-11-26 14:46:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-26 15:09:39 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 2.677 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 369 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 60 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.62 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us7000nu9b Id of event.
Event Code 7000nu9b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nu9b, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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