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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 15 km W of Karori, New Zealand


Earthquake location -41.2676S, 174.5634WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Karori in New Zealand on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude 174.5634 East, latitude -41.2676 South, depth = 55.723 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rlu7. Id of event: us6000rlu7. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:09:54 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55.723 km (35 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/11/25 / 2025-11-06 08:09:54 / November 6, 2025 @ 8:09 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Blenheim (c. 26 600 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Paraparaumu (c. 25 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Levin (c. 19 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levin, Otaki, Blenheim (min 5000 pop).

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 fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km W of Karori, New Zealand. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 174.5634° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -41.2676° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.723 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km W of Karori, 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 2025-11-06 08:09:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-06 08:28:06 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 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 314 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.683 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rlu7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rlu7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rlu7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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