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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.8422S, 168.8995WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 110 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (68 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: us2000bp9h. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bp9h. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.93 km (4 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.8995 East, latitude -21.8422 South, depth = 6.93 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 09:32:32 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/11/17 / 2017-11-15 22:32:32 / November 15, 2017 @ 10:32 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 110 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.8995° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.8422° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110km ESE 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 22:32:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-15 22:52:39 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 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 0.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us2000bp9h Id of event.
Event Code 2000bp9h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bp9h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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