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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 106 km W of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand


Earthquake location -31.3244S, 179.9915WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 106 km W of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (66 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude 179.9915 East, latitude -31.3244 South, depth = 370.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007lnv. Id of event: us10007lnv. The temblor was detected at 21:14:08 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 370.38 km (230 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/12/16 / 2016-12-21 09:14:08 / December 21, 2016 @ 9:14 am.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 106 km W of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.9915° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -31.3244° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 370.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km W of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2016-12-21 09:14:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-21 10:31:32 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 312 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 6.376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 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 us10007lnv Id of event.
Event Code 10007lnv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007lnv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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