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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Foxton Beach in New Zealand

Posted by admin on May 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -40.5489S, 175.1296WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Foxton Beach in New Zealand. The temblor was picked up at 05:16:41 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 05:16:41 / May 5, 2025 @ 5:16 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.074 km (29 miles). Exact location, longitude 175.1296° East, latitude -40.5489° South, depth = 46.074 km. Id of earthquake: us7000px72. Event ids that are associated: us7000px72.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop). 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 12 km SW of Foxton Beach, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.1296° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.5489° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.074 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12 km SW of Foxton Beach, 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 2025-05-05 05:16:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-05 13:33:36 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 271 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us7000px72 Id of event.
Event Code 7000px72 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000px72, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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