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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Kermadec Islands, New Zealand

Posted by admin on September 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -30.7593S, -177.8487WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (0 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:34:11 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 49.896 km (31 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/08/25 / 2025-08-28 01:34:11 / August 28, 2025 @ 1:34 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rcah. Unique identifier: us6000rcah. Exact location, longitude -177.8487° West, latitude -30.7593° South, depth = 49.896 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.8487° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -30.7593° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49.896 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kermadec Islands, 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 2025-08-28 01:34:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-26 21:53:39 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.494 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 114 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 us6000rcah Id of event.
Event Code 6000rcah An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rcah, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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