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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Leeston in New Zealand

Posted by admin on November 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -44.0605S, 172.2058WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Leeston in New Zealand on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rpic. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rpic. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/25 / 2025-11-21 06:50:49 / November 21, 2025 @ 6:50 am. Exact location, longitude 172.2058° East, latitude -44.0605° South, depth = 10 km. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:50:49 / 6:50 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Timaru, Kaiapoi, Christchurch (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Christchurch (c. 363 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Ashburton (c. 30 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Timaru (c. 28 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kaiapoi (c. 10 200 pop).

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 two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 33 km SSW of Leeston, New Zealand.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.2058° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -44.0605° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km SSW of Leeston, 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 2025-11-21 06:50:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-21 07:27:21 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 199 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rpic Id of event.
Event Code 6000rpic An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rpic, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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