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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Gisborne in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.2046S, 179.715WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 220 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand (137 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: us200080ry. Ids that are associated to the event: us200080ry. Exact location of event, depth 29.61 km, 179.715° East, -37.2046° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.61 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:58:40 / 6:58 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/16 / 2016-12-07 18:58:40 / December 7, 2016 @ 6:58 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 220 km NE of Gisborne, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.715° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.2046° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 220km NE of Gisborne, 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 2016-12-07 18:58:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-04 16:55:42 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 1.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 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 us200080ry Id of event.
Event Code 200080ry An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200080ry, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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