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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Gisborne in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.5706S, 178.7335WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 136 km NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand (85 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/09/16 / 2016-09-03 11:53:30 / September 3, 2016 @ 11:53 am. The temblor was detected at 23:53:30 / 11:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 178.7335 East, latitude -37.5706 South, depth = 25.6 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.6 km (16 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006mfd. Id of event: us10006mfd.

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 twenty-two, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 136 km NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.7335° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.5706° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 136km NNE of Gisborne, 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 2016-09-03 11:53:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-09-18 06:31:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 326 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 0.339 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 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 us10006mfd Id of event.
Event Code 10006mfd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006mfd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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