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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.5975S, 169.9248WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 211 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia (131 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/18 / 2018-12-07 04:03:10 / December 7, 2018 @ 4:03 am. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 169.9248° East, -21.5975° South. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us2000it9e. Event ids that are associated: us2000it9e. The temblor was reported at 15:03:10 / 3:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-three, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 211 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.9248° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.5975° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 211km E 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 2018-12-07 04:03:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-14 00:57:55 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 271 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 3.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 260 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 us2000it9e Id of event.
Event Code 2000it9e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000it9e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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