A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 01:08:29 / July 8, 2018 @ 1:08 am. Exact location of event, longitude 168.4069 East, latitude -21.3075 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000fzfw. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000fzfw. The temblor was detected at 12:08:29 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. 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 one and in the last 365 days three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 60 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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