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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Riverton in New Zealand


Earthquake location -46.516S, 166.6475WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 106 km W of Riverton, New Zealand (66 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62.942 km (39 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000qtdk. Event ids that are associated: us7000qtdk. Global time and date of event 02/09/25 / 2025-09-02 22:49:12 / September 2, 2025 @ 10:49 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:49:12 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 166.6475 East, latitude -46.516 South, depth = 62.942 km.

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 have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 106 km W of Riverton, New Zealand.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 166.6475° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -46.516° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62.942 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106 km W of Riverton, 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 2025-09-02 22:49:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-03 00:00:50 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 284 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 0.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qtdk Id of event.
Event Code 7000qtdk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qtdk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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