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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 50 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.9663S, 174.0567WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 13.79 km, 174.0567° East, -41.9663° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.79 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100077c8. Id of event: us100077c8. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:23:45 / 4:23 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 16:23:45 / November 13, 2016 @ 4:23 pm.

Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.0567° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.9663° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km 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 2016-11-13 16:23:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-14 16:01:22 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 284 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 0.246 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us100077c8 Id of event.
Event Code 100077c8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100077c8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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