A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Foxton Beach in New Zealand. The temblor was picked up at 05:16:41 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 05:16:41 / May 5, 2025 @ 5:16 am. 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 46.074 km (29 miles). Exact location, longitude 175.1296° East, latitude -40.5489° South, depth = 46.074 km. Id of earthquake: us7000px72. Event ids that are associated: us7000px72.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt. Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from Wellington (c. 381 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Lower Hutt (c. 101 200 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Porirua (c. 50 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Wanganui (c. 40 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Upper Hutt (c. 38 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 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 two and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km SW of Foxton Beach, New Zealand.

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