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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -32.9978S, -178.011WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 192 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (119 miles) on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -178.011° West, -32.9978° South. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000406t. Id of event: us2000406t. The temblor was reported at 06:18:13 / 6:18 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/10/15 / 2015-10-23 18:18:13 / October 23, 2015 @ 6:18 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 192 km SSE of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.011° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -32.9978° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 192km SSE 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 2015-10-23 18:18:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-20 17:14:40 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 298 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 6.582 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 191 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 us2000406t Id of event.
Event Code 2000406t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000406t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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