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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Blenheim in New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.8729S, 174.1695WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Blenheim in New Zealand. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 21.18 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008fmb. Id of event: us70008fmb. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 21.18 km, 174.1695° East, -41.8729° South. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/03/20 / 2020-03-25 05:51:22 / March 25, 2020 @ 5:51 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:51:22 / 5:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Petone (c. 6 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Porirua, Nelson, Lower Hutt.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SSE of Blenheim, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.1695° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.8729° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km SSE of Blenheim, 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 2020-03-25 05:51:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-25 06:10:52 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 355 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 0.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 110 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 us70008fmb Id of event.
Event Code 70008fmb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008fmb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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