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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Waikawa in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Waikawa in New Zealand on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 11:31:28 / 11:31 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/25 / 2025-08-30 11:31:28 / August 30, 2025 @ 11:31 am. Exact location, longitude 173.8101° East, latitude -41.0401° South, depth = 77.897 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 77.897 km (48 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000qsjm. Event ids that are associated: us7000qsjm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Paraparaumu, Lower Hutt, Petone. Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Nelson (c. 59 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Richmond (c. 14 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 32 km NW of Waikawa, New Zealand.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	173.8101° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-41.0401° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77.897 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km NW of Waikawa, 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	2025-08-30 11:31:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-30 11:53:57	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	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.687	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	372	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	0.37	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	63	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	us7000qsjm	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qsjm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qsjm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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