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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near L’Esperance Rock in New Zealand


Earthquake location -33.3079S, -179.2402WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 210 km S of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand (130 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/19 / 2019-06-20 20:07:58 / June 20, 2019 @ 8:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us700046px. Unique identifier: us700046px. The temblor was picked up at 08:07:58 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -179.2402° West, latitude -33.3079° South, depth = 33.02 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33.02 km (21 miles).

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 six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 210 km S of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.2402° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -33.3079° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.02 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210km S of L'Esperance Rock, 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 2019-06-20 20:07:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-17 20:45:20 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 4.202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us700046px Id of event.
Event Code 700046px An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us700046px, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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