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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.3334S, 169.8716WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 207 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia (129 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.8716 East, latitude -21.3334 South, depth = 31.49 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.49 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/08/19 / 2019-08-31 11:23:20 / August 31, 2019 @ 11:23 am. Id of earthquake: us70005cdk. Event ids that are associated: us70005cdk. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:23:20 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 207 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.8716° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.3334° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 207km 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 2019-08-31 11:23:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-23 06:42:33 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 312 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 2.586 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us70005cdk Id of event.
Event Code 70005cdk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70005cdk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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