A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Unique identifier: us1000azfp. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000azfp. Exact location, longitude 168.821° East, latitude -21.7537° South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 22:50:16 / October 31, 2017 @ 10:50 pm UTC/GMT. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:50:16 / 9:50 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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 ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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