A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, south of the Kermadec Islands (0 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -178.4341 West, latitude -32.855 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cnvq. Id of event: us7000cnvq. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/20 / 2020-12-03 17:13:19 / December 3, 2020 @ 5:13 pm. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:13:19 / 5:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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 five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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