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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 126 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -20.6284S, 168.6043WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 126 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia (78 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 168.6043 East, latitude -20.6284 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 03:22:33 / June 20, 2016 @ 3:22 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:22:33 / 2:22 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us200066i0. Ids that are associated to the event: us200066i0. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 126 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6043° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.6284° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km 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 2016-06-20 03:22:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-03 00:55:42 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 271 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 1.003 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 259 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 us200066i0 Id of event.
Event Code 200066i0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200066i0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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