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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Napier in New Zealand


Earthquake location -39.2706S, 176.975WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Napier in New Zealand. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 33.16 km (21 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:42:47 / 11:42 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 event in UTC/GMT: 22/02/21 / 2021-02-22 11:42:47 / February 22, 2021 @ 11:42 am. Exact location of event, depth 33.16 km, 176.975° East, -39.2706° South. Unique identifier: us6000dk2h. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000dk2h.

The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hastings (c. 61 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Napier (c. 56 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Taradale (c. 16 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hastings, Taradale, Napier. Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop).

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 five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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: 25 km NNE of Napier, 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 176.975° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -39.2706° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25 km NNE of Napier, 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 2021-02-22 11:42:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-22 12:22:17 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 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 0.654 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us6000dk2h Id of event.
Event Code 6000dk2h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000dk2h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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