A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.6955 East, latitude -21.2282 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000c22w. Id of event: us2000c22w. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:23:25 / 11:23 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/17 / 2017-12-03 00:23:25 / December 3, 2017 @ 12:23 am.
Country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 91 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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