A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Castlepoint in New Zealand. Exact location of event, longitude 176.5624 East, latitude -40.6255 South, depth = 20.449 km. The temblor was detected at 23:17:41 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/25 / 2025-12-03 23:17:41 / December 3, 2025 @ 11:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000rff4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000rff4. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.449 km (13 miles).

The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Palmerston North (c. 76 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Masterton (c. 20 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Zealand (c. 4 252 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmerston North, Masterton (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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 42 km NE of Castlepoint, New Zealand.

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