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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 1 km NE of Tiniroto, New Zealand

Posted by admin on July 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -38.7591S, 177.5757WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Tiniroto in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 11:00:53 / July 18, 2025 @ 11:00 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qde8. Id of event: us7000qde8. The epicenter was at a depth of 37.455 km (23 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:00:53 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 177.5757 East, latitude -38.7591 South, depth = 37.455 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gisborne (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Gisborne (c. 34 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 one and in the last 365 days three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km NE of Tiniroto, New Zealand. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 177.5757° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -38.7591° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.455 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km NE of Tiniroto, 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 2025-07-18 11:00:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-18 11:27:21 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 312 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 243 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 us7000qde8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qde8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qde8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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