A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/17 / 2017-11-16 10:04:15 / November 16, 2017 @ 10:04 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:04:15 / 9:04 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bplp. Unique identifier: us2000bplp. Exact location, longitude 168.5643° East, latitude -21.5551° South, depth = 20.28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.28 km (13 miles).
Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine.
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 70 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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