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Light earthquake: M4.8 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on November 18, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.6558S, 168.7648WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.28 km (11 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/11/17 / 2017-11-18 01:31:06 / November 18, 2017 @ 1:31 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 17.28 km, 168.7648° East, -21.6558° South. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:31:06 / 12:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bqul. Id of event: us2000bqul. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine.

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

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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. 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: 92 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.7648° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.6558° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km E 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 2017-11-18 01:31:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-18 02:19:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 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 354 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 0.705 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us2000bqul Id of event.
Event Code 2000bqul An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bqul, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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