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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Waikawa in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Waikawa in New Zealand on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 13:20:54 / 1:20 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000px70. Event ids that are associated: us6000px70. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 87.662 km (54 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/25 / 2025-03-06 13:20:54 / March 6, 2025 @ 1:20 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.2402 East, latitude -40.777 South, depth = 87.662 km.

Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levin, Blenheim, Upper 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NNE of Waikawa, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.2402° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.777° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	87.662 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km NNE of Waikawa, 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	2025-03-06 13:20:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-06 13:53:29	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	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	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.637	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000px70	Id of event.
Event Code	6000px70	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000px70,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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