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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Turangi in New Zealand


Earthquake location -38.9744S, 176.3005WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Turangi in New Zealand on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 72.95 km (45 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 176.3005 East, latitude -38.9744 South, depth = 72.95 km. The temblor was detected at 18:16:43 / 6:16 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/04/20 / 2020-04-17 06:16:43 / April 17, 2020 @ 6:16 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us70008y8c. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008y8c.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tokoroa, Hastings, Taradale. Earthquake epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Hastings (c. 61 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km E of Turangi, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 176.3005° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.9744° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km E of Turangi, 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 2020-04-17 06:16:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-17 06:34:16 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 259 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 0.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008y8c Id of event.
Event Code 70008y8c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008y8c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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