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Earthquake: M 5 quake strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on January 26, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.8099S, 168.3585WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (mg/mb) has striked on Monday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The temblor was reported at 03:25:48 / 3:25 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 28.95 km (18 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-26 04:25:48 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 168.3585 East, latitude -20.8099 South, depth 28.95 km.

Close countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). The epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.3585° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.8099° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km NNE of Tadine, New Caledonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-01-26 04:25:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-26 04:49:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources us A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.181 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID usc000tj2b Id of event.
Event Code c000tj2b An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS usc000tj2b A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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