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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on November 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.4391S, 168.6WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Event id: us2000bvh1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvh1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 15:17:01 / November 19, 2017 @ 3:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, 168.6° East, -21.4391° South, depth 10 km. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:17:01 / 2:17 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine. Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-nine, in the last 10 days eighty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 75 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.4391° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2017-11-19 15:17:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-29 20:04:51 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 400 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 0.532 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 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 us2000bvh1 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvh1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvh1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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