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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Blenheim in New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 22, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.711S, 173.9804WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. Id of earthquake: us10005zpt. Event ids that are associated: us10005zpt. Exact location of earthquake, 173.9804° East, -41.711° South, depth 15.09 km. Global time and date of event 04/07/16 / 2016-07-04 00:45:50 / July 4, 2016 @ 12:45 am UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:45:50 / 12:45 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.09 km (9 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Richmond, Nelson (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each 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 two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.9804° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.711° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km S of Blenheim, 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 2016-07-04 00:45:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-22 04:13:11 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 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 0.078 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005zpt Id of event.
Event Code 10005zpt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005zpt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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