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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Kaikoura in New Zealand


Earthquake location -42.0905S, 173.8866WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 16.03 km (10 miles). The temblor was reported at 02:45:47 / 2:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us10007dey. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007dey. Exact location of event, depth 16.03 km, 173.8866° East, -42.0905° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/11/16 / 2016-11-13 14:45:47 / November 13, 2016 @ 2:45 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blenheim. The epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventy-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 39 km NNE of Kaikoura, 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 173.8866° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.0905° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNE 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 2016-11-13 14:45:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-05 21:30:56 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 0.375 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 123 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 us10007dey Id of event.
Event Code 10007dey An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007dey, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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