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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.2668S, 168.5779WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:27:28 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 168.5779° East, -21.2668° South, depth 16.98 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.98 km (11 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/05/18 / 2018-05-18 00:27:28 / May 18, 2018 @ 12:27 am. Event id: us1000e7pv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000e7pv.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 78 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.5779° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.2668° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km ENE 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 2018-05-18 00:27:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-18 00:47:01 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 385 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 1.341 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us1000e7pv Id of event.
Event Code 1000e7pv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e7pv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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