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Strong earthquake, 6.8 mag strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on October 31, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.8874S, 168.874WA earthquake magnitude 6.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 109 kilometers (68 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/10/17 / 2017-10-31 00:42:13 / October 31, 2017 @ 12:42 am. Exact location, longitude 168.874° East, latitude -21.8874° South, depth = 29.37 km. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:42:13 / 11:42 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000aytk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00oynwmb, us1000aytk, pt17304000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.37 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Tadine in New Caledonia (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close 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. Epicenter of the earthquake was 109 km (68 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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 ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 109 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.874° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.8874° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km ESE 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 2017-10-31 00:42:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-31 01:04:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.19 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 1 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 712 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 ,at,us,pt, 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 0.882 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 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 mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000aytk Id of event.
Event Code 1000aytk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00oynwmb,us1000aytk,pt17304000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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