USGS Home
Contact USGS
Search USGS

Earthquake Hazards Program

Skip to main content

Home

Earthquake
Center

Regional
Information

About
Earthquakes

Research
& Monitoring

Other
Resources

You are here: Home » Earthquake Center » Latest Earthquakes -
World » Magnitude 5.2 - SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

Latest
Earthquakes

USA

World

EQ
Notification Service

Feeds & Data

Animations

Recent
Earthquakes:Last 8-30 Days

Historic
Earthquakes

"Top 10" Lists &
Maps

Significant
EQs

Earthquake Search

EQ Summary
Posters

Scientific
Data

About EQ Maps

Did
You Feel It?

Fast Moment
Tensors

Media Info

PAGER

Seismogram
Displays

ShakeMaps

Magnitude 5.2 - SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

2008 January 20 18:41:53 UTC

Details

Maps

Where can I
find...?

Earthquake Details

Magnitude

5.2

Date-Time

Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 18:41:53 UTC

Monday, January 21, 2008 at 07:41:53 AM at epicenter

Location

44.936°S, 167.000°E

Depth

35 km (21.7 miles) set by location program

Region

SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND

Distances

135 km (85 miles) W of
Queenstown, New Zealand
195 km (120 miles) NNW of
Invercargill, New Zealand
295 km (180 miles) WNW of Dunedin,
New Zealand
750 km (465 miles) SW of WELLINGTON, New
Zealand

Location
Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 15.4 km (9.6 miles); depth fixed by location
program

Parameters

Nst= 19, Nph= 19, Dmin=745 km, Rmss=1.4 sec, Gp= 83°,
M-type=body
magnitude (Mb), Version=7

Source

USGS NEIC
(WDCS-D)

Event
ID

us2008mkay

This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Did
you feel it?
Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also
view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

Earthquake Maps

Earthquake Location

Did You Feel It? Tell
Us

Google Map

Google Earth KML
(Requires Google Earth)

Preliminary Earthquake Report

U.S. Geological Survey, National
Earthquake Information Center:
World Data Center for
Seismology, Denver

In
partnership with nehrp

About
Us

Contact Us

Site
Map

Search

Accessibility FOIA
Privacy Policies and Notices

U.S. Department of the Interior
| U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008mkay.php
Page
Contact Information: Web
Team
Page Last Modified: January 20, 2008 11:11:16 AM.