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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 54 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.1767S, 168.2328WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:18:44 / 4:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60006q21. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60006q21. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/19 / 2019-12-11 05:18:44 / December 11, 2019 @ 5:18 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.04 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.2328 East, latitude -21.1767 South, depth = 29.04 km.

Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine.

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.2328° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.1767° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NE 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 2019-12-11 05:18:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-11 06:30:31 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 340 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 0.356 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 89 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 us60006q21 Id of event.
Event Code 60006q21 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60006q21, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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