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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag strikes near Takaka in New Zealand


Earthquake location -40.6322S, 173.4378WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Takaka in New Zealand. Unique identifier: us10004agf. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004agf. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:50:48 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/12/15 / 2015-12-30 19:50:48 / December 30, 2015 @ 7:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 173.4378° East, -40.6322° South, depth 144.97 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 144.97 km (90 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richmond, Nelson, Motueka (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Motueka (c. 7 500 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 two and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 59 km ENE of Takaka, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.4378° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.6322° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 144.97 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km ENE of Takaka, 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 2015-12-30 19:50:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-30 20:10:14 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 354 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 0.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 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 us10004agf Id of event.
Event Code 10004agf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004agf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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