A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Maketu in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 27/03/25 / 2025-03-27 02:57:11 / March 27, 2025 @ 2:57 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 184.943 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pmyk. Unique identifier: us7000pmyk. The temblor was picked up at 02:57:11 / 2:57 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 184.943 km, 176.908° East, -37.4727° South.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kawerau, Tauranga, Whakatane (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 51 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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