Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 40 km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/01/17 / 2017-01-05 11:17:34 / January 5, 2017 @ 11:17 am. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:17:34 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). 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 19.01 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us10007rb1. Unique identifier: us10007rb1. Exact location, longitude 174.0804° East, latitude -41.8639° South, depth = 19.01 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Porirua, Lower Hutt, Petone. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (54 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.0804° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.8639° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40km SSE 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	2017-01-05 11:17:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-05 11:32:16	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	416	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	0.152	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us10007rb1	Id of event.
Event Code	10007rb1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10007rb1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

174.0804° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

-41.8639° South

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

19.01 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

40km SSE 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

2017-01-05 11:17:34

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2017-01-05 11:32:16

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

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

416

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.152

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

1.11 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

109

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10007rb1

Id of event.

Event Code

10007rb1

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us10007rb1,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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