A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:43:34 / 8:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 168.8024° East, latitude -21.6237° South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvgs. Unique identifier: us2000bvgs. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 09:43:34 / November 19, 2017 @ 9:43 am.
The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). 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.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 95 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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