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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 13 km E of Homedale, New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.2755S, 175.107WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Homedale in New Zealand. Global time and date of event 10/07/25 / 2025-07-10 20:47:40 / July 10, 2025 @ 8:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 175.107 East, latitude -41.2755 South, depth = 21.861 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qbx0. Id of event: us7000qbx0. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.861 km (14 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:47:40 / 8:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 28 km (17 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Levin, Masterton, Otaki.

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km E of Homedale, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 175.107° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.2755° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.861 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km E of Homedale, 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 2025-07-10 20:47:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-10 21:32:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 160 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.305 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us7000qbx0 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qbx0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qbx0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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