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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Lincoln in New Zealand

Posted by admin on April 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -43.6347S, 172.544WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Lincoln in New Zealand. Event id: us70008rwa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008rwa. Exact location, longitude 172.544° East, latitude -43.6347° South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/04/20 / 2020-04-08 19:49:15 / April 8, 2020 @ 7:49 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:49:15 / 7:49 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 13 km (8 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Ashburton (c. 30 100 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ashburton, Kaiapoi, Christchurch (min 5000 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 four 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km ENE of Lincoln, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.544° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -43.6347° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km ENE of Lincoln, 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 2020-04-08 19:49:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-08 22:46:06 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 211 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 0.107 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008rwa Id of event.
Event Code 70008rwa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008rwa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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