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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 5 km NNW of Lower Hutt, New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.1707S, 174.9032WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lower Hutt in New Zealand on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/09/19 / 2019-09-22 09:58:54 / September 22, 2019 @ 9:58 am. Event id: us60005lyl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60005lyl. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.6 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:58:54 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 174.9032 East, latitude -41.1707 South, depth = 34.6 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim, Masterton, Levin. Epicenter of the event was 17 km (10 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). 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 two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 5 km NNW of Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.9032° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.1707° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km NNW of Lower Hutt, 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 2019-09-22 09:58:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-22 22:07:32 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 234 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 0.203 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us60005lyl Id of event.
Event Code 60005lyl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60005lyl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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