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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Castlepoint in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.006S, 176.5184WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Castlepoint in New Zealand. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/01/19 / 2019-01-02 21:20:30 / January 2, 2019 @ 9:20 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:20:30 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 176.5184 East, latitude -41.006 South, depth = 24.24 km. Id of earthquake: us2000izx7. Event ids that are associated: us2000izx7. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 Masterton (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 27 km ESE of Castlepoint, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.5184° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.006° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km ESE of Castlepoint, 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 2019-01-02 21:20:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-19 23:52:14 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 284 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 0.385 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us2000izx7 Id of event.
Event Code 2000izx7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000izx7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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