A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 203 km NW of Auckland Island, New Zealand (126 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 19:54:26 / November 5, 2018 @ 7:54 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 163.8276 East, latitude -49.6364 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:54:26 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000i74i. Id of event: us2000i74i. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
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 one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 203 km NW of Auckland Island, New Zealand.
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