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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.8596S, 169.1195WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) strikes 132 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (82 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 21/01/19 / 2019-01-21 01:36:36 / January 21, 2019 @ 1:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, 169.1195° East, -21.8596° South, depth 10 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:36:36 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j6qr. Unique identifier: us2000j6qr. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 132 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.1195° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.8596° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132km 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 2019-01-21 01:36:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-21 01:53:03 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 500 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 2.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000j6qr Id of event.
Event Code 2000j6qr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j6qr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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