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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Levin in New Zealand


Earthquake location -40.5642S, 175.2638WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Levin in New Zealand. Exact location of event, depth 61.4 km, 175.2638° East, -40.5642° South. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 61.4 km (38 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000cln6. Id of event: us2000cln6. The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:46:50 / 1:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/18 / 2018-01-20 01:46:50 / January 20, 2018 @ 1:46 am.

Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 7 km N of Levin, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.2638° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.5642° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km N of Levin, 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 2018-01-20 01:46:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-20 02:06:31 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 0.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us2000cln6 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cln6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cln6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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