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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Queenstown in New Zealand

Posted by admin on October 10, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -44.4331S, 167.8377WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 93 kilometers (58 miles) from Queenstown in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:22:50 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us1000h8bk. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h8bk. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.8377 East, latitude -44.4331 South, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 02:22:50 / October 7, 2018 @ 2:22 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Queenstown (c. 10 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Queenstown (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 93 km NW of Queenstown, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.8377° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -44.4331° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km NW of Queenstown, 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 2018-10-07 02:22:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-10 02:31:14 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 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 0.929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us1000h8bk Id of event.
Event Code 1000h8bk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h8bk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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