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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Wakefield in New Zealand

Posted by admin on August 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -41.9328S, 173.0015WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Wakefield in New Zealand. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:51:33 / 7:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77.89 km (48 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/20 / 2020-08-08 07:51:33 / August 8, 2020 @ 7:51 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 173.0015 East, latitude -41.9328 South, depth = 77.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000bb0k. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000bb0k.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Blenheim, Motueka, Nelson. Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Motueka (c. 7 500 pop).

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 one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 59 km S of Wakefield, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 173.0015° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.9328° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 km S of Wakefield, 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 2020-08-08 07:51:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-08 08:14:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 285 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 0.184 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us6000bb0k Id of event.
Event Code 6000bb0k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000bb0k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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