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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.2761S, 169.5863WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 193 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (120 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 169.5863° East, -22.2761° South, depth 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 10:19:09 / December 5, 2018 @ 10:19 am. Unique identifier: us1000i2pa. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000i2pa. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 21:19:09 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.5863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.2761° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 193km 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 10:19:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-05 10:49:01 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 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 2.901 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 us1000i2pa Id of event.
Event Code 1000i2pa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000i2pa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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