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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Tokoroa in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Tokoroa in New Zealand on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 278.989 km (173 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 175.8766 East, latitude -38.0749 South, depth = 278.989 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:00:07 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000pml0. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pml0. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 21:00:07 / March 25, 2025 @ 9:00 pm.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ngaruawahia, Kawerau, Taupo (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Hamilton (c. 152 600 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop).

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 seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 17 km N of Tokoroa, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.8766° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-38.0749° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	278.989 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km N of Tokoroa, 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	2025-03-25 21:00:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-25 21:12:49	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.454	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.86 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	69	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	us7000pml0	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pml0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pml0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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