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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.7634S, 168.997WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 117 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (73 miles). Unique identifier: us2000bkzz. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bkzz. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:34:01 / 6:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 168.997 East, latitude -21.7634 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 19:34:01 / October 31, 2017 @ 7:34 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighty-two, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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 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: 117 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.997° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7634° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117km 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 2017-10-31 19:34:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-30 18:53:37 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 284 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 0.942 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205 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 us2000bkzz Id of event.
Event Code 2000bkzz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bkzz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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