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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 18 km N of Tokoroa, New Zealand

Posted by admin on June 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.0649S, 175.8868WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Tokoroa in New Zealand. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 23:08:22 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000eixm. Event ids that are associated: us1000eixm. Exact location, longitude 175.8868° East, latitude -38.0649° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/06/18 / 2018-06-05 11:08:22 / June 5, 2018 @ 11:08 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Hamilton (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ngaruawahia, Kawerau, Taupo (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 18 km N of Tokoroa, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.8868° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.0649° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km N 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 2018-06-05 11:08:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-05 12:21:50 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 285 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 0.451 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 168 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 us1000eixm Id of event.
Event Code 1000eixm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000eixm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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