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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Te Anau in New Zealand

Posted by admin on April 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -44.9472S, 167.5225WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Te Anau in New Zealand on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 79.11 km (49 miles). The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:52:11 / 10:52 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us60009cyg. Event ids that are associated: us60009cyg. Exact location, longitude 167.5225° East, latitude -44.9472° South, depth = 79.11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/20 / 2020-04-26 22:52:11 / April 26, 2020 @ 10:52 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Queenstown (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Queenstown (c. 10 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 54 km NNW of Te Anau, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.5225° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -44.9472° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79.11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NNW of Te Anau, 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 2020-04-26 22:52:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-26 23:07:59 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 369 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 0.579 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60009cyg Id of event.
Event Code 60009cyg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009cyg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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