This quake was widely felt in both islands. Strong shaking was reported as far as Palmerston North and Masterton.
| PublicID | 2014p051675 |
| UTC Time | 2014-01-20T02:52:45Z |
| Latitude | -40.62 (± 0.7 km) |
| Longitude | 175.86 (± 1.2 km) |
| Depth | 34 km (± 2 km) |
| Depth Type | free |
| Earth Model | nz3drx |
| Used Phase Count | 29 |
| Used Station Count | 20 |
| Standard Error | 0.30 (s) |
| Azimuthal Gap | 84.47 (degrees) |
| Minimum Distance | 0.10 (degrees) |
| Type | Magnitude | Station Count |
| Preferred (MLv) | 6.2 (± 0.3) | |
| MLv | 6.2 (± 0.3) | 124 |
| ML | 6.5 (± 0.3) | 12 |
| MLv | 6.0 (± 0.2) | 7 |
| M | 6.1 | 124 |
| ML | 6.0 | 1 |
GeoNet combines magnitudes into a summary magnitude, M, which consists of a weighted average of the individual magnitudes and attempts to be a best possible compromise between all magnitudes for a range of earthquake sizes.
Summary magnitude for GeoNet is then defined as:
M = (2 * MLv + (0.4 * number_of stations(Mw(mB)) - 1) * Mw(mB)) / (2 + (0.4 * number_of_stations(Mw(mB)) - 1))
Where MLv is local magnitude calculated on the vertical component and Mw(mB) is a Mw estimation based of mB by Bormann and Saul (2008).
Map showing stations with picks used to locate the earthquake. Stations with picks that have a zero weight in the solution are shown as small grey circles. Those with a higher weight are shown as larger circles. The quake is shown by the largest circle.