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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near the Kermadec Islands


Earthquake location -34.8518S, 179.2886WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, south of the Kermadec Islands (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 100.537 km (62 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/12/24 / 2024-12-30 21:33:16 / December 30, 2024 @ 9:33 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pj70. Id of event: us6000pj70. The temblor was reported at 21:33:16 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 179.2886 East, latitude -34.8518 South, depth = 100.537 km.

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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: south of the Kermadec Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2886° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -34.8518° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 100.537 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of the Kermadec Islands Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-12-30 21:33:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-14 05:48:58 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.826 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 219 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 us6000pj70 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pj70 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pj70, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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