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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 51 km WSW of Kaikoura, New Zealand


Earthquake location -42.511S, 173.0739WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:54:55 / 3:54 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us100077qr. Ids that are associated to the event: us100077qr. Global time and date of event 14/11/16 / 2016-11-14 15:54:55 / November 14, 2016 @ 3:54 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 173.0739 East, latitude -42.511 South, depth = 10 km.

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 Kaiapoi. Epicenter of the event was 103 km (64 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 51 km WSW of Kaikoura, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.0739° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.511° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km WSW of Kaikoura, 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 2016-11-14 15:54:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-15 14:25:08 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 369 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 0.357 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us100077qr Id of event.
Event Code 100077qr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100077qr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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