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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Whakatane in New Zealand


Earthquake location -37.358S, 177.0802WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Whakatane in New Zealand. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 197.24 km (123 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:58:20 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 09/05/20 / 2020-05-09 19:58:20 / May 9, 2020 @ 7:58 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70009gm7. Id of event: us70009gm7. Exact location of earthquake, 177.0802° East, -37.358° South, depth 197.24 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kawerau, Tauranga, Whakatane. Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from Tauranga (c. 110 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Whakatane (c. 18 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kawerau (c. 6 700 pop). Close country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km N of Whakatane, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.0802° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -37.358° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 197.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km N of Whakatane, 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 2020-05-09 19:58:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-23 05:27:16 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 284 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 0.997 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us70009gm7 Id of event.
Event Code 70009gm7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009gm7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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