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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tokoroa in New Zealand

Posted by admin on April 26, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.445S, 175.9003WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Tokoroa in New Zealand on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 170.45 km (106 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:28:11 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/04/18 / 2018-04-25 23:28:11 / April 25, 2018 @ 11:28 pm. Id of earthquake: us1000dse7. Event ids that are associated: us1000dse7. Exact location of earthquake, 175.9003° East, -38.445° South, depth 170.45 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hamilton, Tauranga, Kawerau (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Hamilton (c. 152 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop). Nearby 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 23 km S of Tokoroa, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.9003° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.445° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 170.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km S of Tokoroa, 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 2018-04-25 23:28:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-25 23:44:22 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 326 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 0.779 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 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 us1000dse7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000dse7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000dse7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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