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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Patea in New Zealand

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Earthquake location -40.182S, 174.5843WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Patea in New Zealand on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/05/25 / 2025-05-14 08:45:19 / May 14, 2025 @ 8:45 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pz5d. Id of event: us7000pz5d. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:45:19 / 8:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 174.5843° East, latitude -40.182° South, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Hawera (c. 11 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Otaki (c. 6 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Otaki, Levin, Hawera (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 47 km S of Patea, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.5843° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -40.182° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47 km S of Patea, 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 2025-05-14 08:45:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-14 14:03:09 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 199 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.897 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 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 ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pz5d Id of event.
Event Code 7000pz5d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pz5d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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