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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 85 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.3765S, 168.6904WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.6904 East, latitude -21.3765 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000bp7y. Event ids that are associated: us2000bp7y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/11/17 / 2017-11-15 21:57:23 / November 15, 2017 @ 9:57 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:57:23 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days seventy-seven and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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: 85 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6904° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.3765° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85km ENE 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 2017-11-15 21:57:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-15 22:15:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 0.623 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.74 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 226 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 us2000bp7y Id of event.
Event Code 2000bp7y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bp7y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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