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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 21 km SSW of Maketu, New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.9428S, 176.3499WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Maketu in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 18:12:08 / December 17, 2016 @ 6:12 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us200081zg. Ids that are associated to the event: us200081zg. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:12:08 / 6:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 176.3499 East, latitude -37.9428 South, depth = 245.57 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 245.57 km (153 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 33 km (20 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taupo, Cambridge, Whakatane (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SSW of Maketu, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.3499° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.9428° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 245.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSW of Maketu, 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 2016-12-17 18:12:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-17 20:08:52 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 298 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 0.835 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200081zg Id of event.
Event Code 200081zg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200081zg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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