Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Homedale in New Zealand

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Homedale in New Zealand on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nyw1. Id of event: us7000nyw1. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.521 km (12 miles). The temblor was reported at 17:32:49 / 5:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 175.193° East, -41.3912° South, depth 18.521 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/12/24 / 2024-12-14 17:32:49 / December 14, 2024 @ 5:32 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levin, Otaki, Masterton (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 37 km (23 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor 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 one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km SE of Homedale, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.193° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.3912° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.521 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	24 km SE of Homedale, 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	2024-12-14 17:32:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-15 10:18:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	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	201	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	176	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000nyw1	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nyw1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nyw1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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