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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Witherlea in New Zealand

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Witherlea in New Zealand on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.38 East, latitude -41.8381 South, depth = 25.855 km. Id of earthquake: us7000nzge. Event ids that are associated: us7000nzge. The temblor was picked up at 04:39:34 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.855 km (16 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 04:39:34 / December 17, 2024 @ 4:39 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Upper Hutt, Porirua, Lower Hutt.

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 49 km SE of Witherlea, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.38° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.8381° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.855 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 km SE of Witherlea, 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	2024-12-17 04:39:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-17 04:54:18	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	4.6	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	312	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.582	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	89	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	us7000nzge	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nzge	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nzge,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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