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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Ile Hunter in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.7111S, 172.8969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 93 km ESE of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia (58 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 54.54 km (34 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006f20. Id of event: us10006f20. Exact location, longitude 172.8969° East, latitude -22.7111° South, depth = 54.54 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 02:05:55 / August 15, 2016 @ 2:05 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 14:05:55 / 2:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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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. 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: 93 km ESE of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 172.8969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.7111° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93km ESE of Ile Hunter, 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 2016-08-15 02:05:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 23:17:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 720 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 4.676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 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 us10006f20 Id of event.
Event Code 10006f20 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006f20, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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