Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Vao in New Caledonia

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was reported 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Vao in New Caledonia on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.02 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 10:02:12 / November 19, 2017 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 167.91° East, latitude -22.1945° South, depth = 5.02 km. The temblor was detected at 21:02:12 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us2000brd7. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000brd7.

Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 68 km NE of Vao, New Caledonia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	167.91° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-22.1945° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.02 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km NE of Vao, 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 10:02:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-01 08:49:15	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	0.597	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	166	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	us2000brd7	Id of event.
Event Code	2000brd7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000brd7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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