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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -30.5603S, -179.4877WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 111 km NNW of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (69 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -179.4877 West, latitude -30.5603 South, depth = 318.8 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/06/15 / 2015-06-26 00:00:17 / June 26, 2015 @ 12:00 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002wk6. Id of event: us20002wk6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 318.8 km (198 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:00:17 / 12:00 pm (local time epicenter).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 111 km NNW of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.4877° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.5603° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 318.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111km NNW of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2015-06-26 00:00:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-12 01:23:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us20002wk6 Id of event.
Event Code 20002wk6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002wk6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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