A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 09:04:13 / November 19, 2017 @ 9:04 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvgw. Id of event: us2000bvgw. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.6364° East, -21.7598° South. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:04:13 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days ninety-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 81 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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