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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Ile Hunter in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -22.5304S, 173.0109WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 99 km E of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia (62 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 46.16 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, depth 46.16 km, 173.0109° East, -22.5304° South. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:53:43 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/08/16 / 2016-08-15 02:53:43 / August 15, 2016 @ 2:53 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006f21. Id of event: us10006f21.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 99 km E of Ile Hunter, New Caledonia. This information 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 173.0109° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -22.5304° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km E 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 02:53:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-23 23:26:18 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 4.738 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 us10006f21 Id of event.
Event Code 10006f21 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006f21, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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