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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Acacia Bay in New Zealand

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Acacia Bay in New Zealand. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:15:45 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 175.6804° East, latitude -38.5629° South, depth = 150.474 km. Id of earthquake: us6000re8w. Event ids that are associated: us6000re8w. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/10/25 / 2025-10-02 18:15:45 / October 2, 2025 @ 6:15 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 150.474 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Rotorua (c. 65 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Taupo (c. 22 500 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cambridge (c. 15 200 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tokoroa (c. 14 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Matamata (c. 6 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Matamata, Cambridge, Rotorua.

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 two and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 34 km WNW of Acacia Bay, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	175.6804° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-38.5629° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	150.474 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km WNW of Acacia Bay, 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	2025-10-02 18:15:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-02 19:13:43	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	259	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.474	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us6000re8w	Id of event.
Event Code	6000re8w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000re8w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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