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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 20 km E of Patea, New Zealand


Earthquake location -39.7833S, 174.7162WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Patea in New Zealand on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us10004dni. Event ids that are associated: us10004dni. Exact location of earthquake, 174.7162° East, -39.7833° South, depth 155.91 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:27:15 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/01/16 / 2016-01-12 00:27:15 / January 12, 2016 @ 12:27 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 155.91 km (97 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 33 km (21 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Hawera (c. 11 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hawera, Wanganui. Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. 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: 20 km E of Patea, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.7162° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.7833° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 155.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km E of Patea, 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 2016-01-12 00:27:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-06 06:04:43 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 259 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 1.273 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10004dni Id of event.
Event Code 10004dni An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004dni, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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