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Strong earthquake 6.8 mag, 178 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia

Posted by admin on May 19, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.7S, 169.6WA earthquake with magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 178 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia (111 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tadine in New Caledonia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 169.6 East, latitude -21.7 South, depth = 14 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19139000, at00prq977. Unique identifier: at00prq977. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/05/19 / 2019-05-19 01:23:31 / May 19, 2019 @ 1:23 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 12:23:31 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 178 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.6° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km 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 2019-05-19 01:23:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-19 01:32:00 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 711 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75.599993952001 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 at00prq977 Id of event.
Event Code 00prq977 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19139000,at00prq977, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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