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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 209 km ENE of Opotiki, New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.0417S, 179.2553WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 209 km ENE of Opotiki, New Zealand (130 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 179.2553° East, -37.0417° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 09/09/16 / 2016-09-09 06:35:16 / September 9, 2016 @ 6:35 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10006n9q. Event ids that are associated: us10006n9q. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:16 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days ninety-four, in the past 30 days ninety-four and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 209 km ENE of Opotiki, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2553° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.0417° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 209km ENE 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 2016-09-09 06:35:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-05 08:38:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.917 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us10006n9q Id of event.
Event Code 10006n9q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006n9q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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