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Major earthquake, 7 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on December 5, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location -22S, 169.6WA major earthquake with magnitude 7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 184 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (114 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 169.6 East, latitude -22 South, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18339002, at00pj93zz. Id of event: at00pj93zz. Global time and date of event 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 06:43:11 / December 5, 2018 @ 6:43 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Tadine in New Caledonia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:43:11 / 5:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 15 major earthquakes in the world.

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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: 184 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.6° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 184km ESE 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 2018-12-05 06:43:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-05 06:50:38 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 1 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 754 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.417542 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97.199992224001 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00pj93zz Id of event.
Event Code 00pj93zz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18339002,at00pj93zz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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