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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.4312S, 168.4634WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:48:55 / 9:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 10:48:55 / November 19, 2017 @ 10:48 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.63 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 168.4634° East, -21.4312° South, depth 24.63 km. Event id: us2000brde. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000brde.

Close 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. The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.4634° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.4312° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km ENE 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 2017-11-19 10:48:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-19 11:09:00 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 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 0.406 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 us2000brde Id of event.
Event Code 2000brde An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000brde, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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