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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Titahi Bay in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Titahi Bay in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000q8eq. Id of event: us7000q8eq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53.033 km (33 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/06/25 / 2025-06-24 12:19:20 / June 24, 2025 @ 12:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 174.4835 East, latitude -40.9809 South, depth = 53.033 km. The temblor was reported at 12:19:20 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levin, Blenheim, Otaki (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 32 km WNW of Titahi Bay, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	174.4835° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-40.9809° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	53.033 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km WNW of Titahi Bay, 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	2025-06-24 12:19:20	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-25 11:58:31	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	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	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.367	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55	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	us7000q8eq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000q8eq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000q8eq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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