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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand


Earthquake location -29.7142S, -177.9606WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles) on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 85.29 km, -177.9606° West, -29.7142° South. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:35:02 / 4:35 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 85.29 km (53 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/20 / 2020-12-09 04:35:02 / December 9, 2020 @ 4:35 am. Event id: us7000cqzl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cqzl.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.9606° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -29.7142° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands, 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 2020-12-09 04:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-23 00:13:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 298 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 0.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us7000cqzl Id of event.
Event Code 7000cqzl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cqzl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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