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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Blenheim in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.9299S, 174.0607WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/16 / 2016-11-17 23:42:17 / November 17, 2016 @ 11:42 pm. Exact location of event, depth 18.74 km, 174.0607° East, -41.9299° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.74 km (12 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:42:17 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100079qg. Id of event: us100079qg.

Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blenheim (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-three 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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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. 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: 46 km S of Blenheim, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.0607° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.9299° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 46km 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 2016-11-17 23:42:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-06 06:30:09 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 246 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 0.214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100079qg Id of event.
Event Code 100079qg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100079qg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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