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Light earthquake 4 mag, 29 km S of Rotorua, New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.4062S, 176.2327WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Rotorua in New Zealand. The temblor was picked up at 08:08:37 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 190.08 km (118 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/01/17 / 2017-01-10 20:08:37 / January 10, 2017 @ 8:08 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007vkm. Id of event: us10007vkm. Exact location of event, depth 190.08 km, 176.2327° East, -38.4062° South.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Whakatane, Tauranga, Matamata (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 29 km S of Rotorua, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.2327° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.4062° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 190.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km S of Rotorua, 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 2017-01-10 20:08:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-09 19:35:57 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 0.622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us10007vkm Id of event.
Event Code 10007vkm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007vkm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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