Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Blenheim in New Zealand

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, 173.7089° East, -41.9404° South, depth 18.04 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 18.04 km (11 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 23:24:18 / 11:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 11:24:18 / November 13, 2016 @ 11:24 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007ddz. Unique identifier: us10007ddz.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Motueka, Nelson, Richmond (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop), 107 km (66 miles) from Motueka (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km SSW of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	173.7089° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.9404° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51km SSW 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 11:24:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-03 07:36:30	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	720	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	433	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	0.257	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us10007ddz	Id of event.
Event Code	10007ddz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007ddz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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