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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Foxton in New Zealand


Earthquake location -40.4043S, 174.9345WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Foxton in New Zealand on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:44:15 / 5:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 174.9345° East, latitude -40.4043° South, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: us70009pwm. Ids that are associated to the event: us70009pwm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/05/20 / 2020-05-25 05:44:15 / May 25, 2020 @ 5:44 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 90 km (56 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lower Hutt, Masterton, Upper Hutt.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eleven 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 31 km WNW of Foxton, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.9345° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.4043° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km WNW of Foxton, 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 2020-05-25 05:44:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-25 06:42:05 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 3.4 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 0.553 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us70009pwm Id of event.
Event Code 70009pwm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009pwm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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