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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Opotiki in New Zealand

Posted by admin on May 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -37.6392S, 177.7779WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Opotiki in New Zealand. The temblor was detected at 14:25:21 / 2:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 113.35 km, 177.7779° East, -37.6392° South. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 02:25:21 / April 27, 2016 @ 2:25 am. Event id: us10005but. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005but. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.35 km (70 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whakatane (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 65 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.7779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.6392° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NE 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 2016-04-27 02:25:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-12 02:58:32 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 271 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 0.426 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us10005but Id of event.
Event Code 10005but An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005but, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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