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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Kaikoura in New Zealand


Earthquake location -42.2892S, 173.8314WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Kaikoura in New Zealand on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.27 km (12 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:08:15 / 1:08 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/03/17 / 2017-03-19 01:08:15 / March 19, 2017 @ 1:08 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008t3y. Id of event: us20008t3y. Exact location of earthquake, 173.8314° East, -42.2892° South, depth 19.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Blenheim (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 18 km NE of Kaikoura, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.8314° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -42.2892° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km NE of Kaikoura, 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 2017-03-19 01:08:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-03-19 01:48:54 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 259 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 0.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 106 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 us20008t3y Id of event.
Event Code 20008t3y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20008t3y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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