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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on November 21, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.3339S, 168.5969WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/11/17 / 2017-11-21 09:56:39 / November 21, 2017 @ 9:56 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.5969 East, latitude -21.3339 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bs8i. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bs8i. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 20:56:39 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days fifty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 77 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.5969° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.3339° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2017-11-21 09:56:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-21 10:21:46 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 369 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 1.383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us2000bs8i Id of event.
Event Code 2000bs8i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bs8i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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