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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Maketu in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.6864S, 176.529WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Maketu in New Zealand. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 202.74 km (126 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/17 / 2017-04-24 07:45:58 / April 24, 2017 @ 7:45 am. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:45:58 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us10008k7z. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008k7z. Exact location of event, longitude 176.529 East, latitude -37.6864 South, depth = 202.74 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 32 km (20 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Matamata (c. 6 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tokoroa, Matamata, Rotorua. Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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

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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: 11 km NE of Maketu, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.529° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.6864° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 202.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km NE of Maketu, 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 2017-04-24 07:45:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-24 10:06:51 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 271 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 0.815 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 146 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 us10008k7z Id of event.
Event Code 10008k7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008k7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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