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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Opotiki in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.1244S, 178.9159WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 179 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand (111 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 178.9159° East, -37.1244° South, depth 35 km. Id of earthquake: us20007e3g. Event ids that are associated: us20007e3g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 19:48:56 / October 8, 2016 @ 7:48 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:48:56 / 7:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 179 km NE of Opotiki, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 178.9159° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.1244° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 179km 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 2016-10-08 19:48:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-28 03:30:53 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 340 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 0.653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 222 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 us20007e3g Id of event.
Event Code 20007e3g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20007e3g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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