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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -32.4053S, -177.0363WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 206 km ESE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (128 miles) on Sunday. Event id: us20002x7i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20002x7i. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:42:35 / 5:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.0363 West, latitude -32.4053 South, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/06/15 / 2015-06-28 17:42:35 / June 28, 2015 @ 5:42 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 206 km ESE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.0363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.4053° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 206km ESE 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 2015-06-28 17:42:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-20 15:10:33 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 3.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 230 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 us20002x7i Id of event.
Event Code 20002x7i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002x7i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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