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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand

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Earthquake location -30.6338S, -178.7672WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -178.7672° West, -30.6338° South, depth 131.007 km. Global time and date of event 21/05/25 / 2025-05-21 06:34:13 / May 21, 2025 @ 6:34 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000q0i2. Event ids that are associated: us7000q0i2. The temblor was picked up at 06:34:13 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 131.007 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.7672° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.6338° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 131.007 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands, 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 2025-05-21 06:34:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-21 07:18:12 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 340 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.564 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 us7000q0i2 Id of event.
Event Code 7000q0i2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q0i2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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