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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.2231S, 168.6089WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 08:03:23 / November 20, 2017 @ 8:03 am. Id of earthquake: us2000brrc. Event ids that are associated: us2000brrc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.6089 East, latitude -21.2231 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:03:23 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days fifty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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 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: 83 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 168.6089° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.2231° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km 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 2017-11-20 08:03:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-20 08:25:01 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 0.597 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 238 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 us2000brrc Id of event.
Event Code 2000brrc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brrc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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