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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 70 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.0509S, 168.3012WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The temblor was reported at 02:36:53 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.89 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000491a. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000491a. Exact location of event, longitude 168.3012 East, latitude -21.0509 South, depth = 14.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/12/15 / 2015-12-23 15:36:53 / December 23, 2015 @ 3:36 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (44 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.3012° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.0509° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NE 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 2015-12-23 15:36:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-23 15:58:23 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 400 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 0.496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us1000491a Id of event.
Event Code 1000491a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000491a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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