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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.1334S, 168.0037WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.67 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.0037 East, latitude -21.1334 South, depth = 13.67 km. Event id: us1000bmdu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bmdu. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:32:59 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/11/17 / 2017-11-27 20:32:59 / November 27, 2017 @ 8:32 pm UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Wé (c. 10 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Wé, Tadine.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km NNE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0037° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.1334° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km NNE 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 2017-11-27 20:32:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-20 23:46:47 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 259 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 0.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 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 us1000bmdu Id of event.
Event Code 1000bmdu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bmdu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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