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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 89 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.5376S, 168.7472WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvwz. Unique identifier: us2000bvwz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 01:27:23 / November 20, 2017 @ 1:27 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 168.7472 East, latitude -21.5376 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 12:27:23 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). The epicenter was 89 km (56 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-seven 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 89 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.7472° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.5376° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km E 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 01:27:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 05:25:53 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 298 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 0.669 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 us2000bvwz Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvwz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvwz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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