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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 32 km SE of Opotiki, New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.3173S, 177.5085WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Opotiki in New Zealand. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/01/16 / 2016-01-04 23:57:45 / January 4, 2016 @ 11:57 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 177.5085° East, -38.3173° South, depth 98.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 98.27 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:57:45 / 12:57 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us10004bdz. Unique identifier: us10004bdz.

Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kawerau, Whakatane, Gisborne.

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 nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km SE of Opotiki, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.5085° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.3173° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 98.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km SE of Opotiki, 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 2016-01-04 23:57:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-05 00:34:09 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 780 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 369 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 0.318 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 162 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 us10004bdz Id of event.
Event Code 10004bdz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004bdz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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