A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 168.5757 East, latitude -21.818 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 10:56:35 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 23:56:35 / December 5, 2018 @ 11:56 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us1000i35k. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000i35k.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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