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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on November 29, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.5306S, 168.5748WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 02:19:50 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 168.5748° East, latitude -21.5306° South, depth = 6.04 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 15:19:50 / November 19, 2017 @ 3:19 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000bvhi. Event ids that are associated: us2000bvhi. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.04 km (4 miles).

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. Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (44 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, in the last 10 days eighty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.5748° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.5306° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 15:19:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-11-29 20:31:04 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 385 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 0.509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 150 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 us2000bvhi Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvhi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvhi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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