A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 98 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (61 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 168.7593 East, latitude -21.8999 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 13:52:09 / 1:52 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us2000blht. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000blht. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/11/17 / 2017-11-01 02:52:09 / November 1, 2017 @ 2:52 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). 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 seventy-nine, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days ninety-two 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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: 98 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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