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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Ile Hunter in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on February 28, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22.3985S, 171.008WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 107 km W of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia (66 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 03:21:56 / 3:21 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/02/18 / 2018-02-28 16:21:56 / February 28, 2018 @ 4:21 pm. Event id: us2000d96y. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d96y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.53 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 171.008° East, -22.3985° South, depth 16.53 km.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 107 km W of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 171.008° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.3985° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 107km W of Ile Hunter, 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 2018-02-28 16:21:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-28 16:45:02 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 400 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 2.911 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d96y Id of event.
Event Code 2000d96y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d96y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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