A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The temblor was reported at 22:00:27 / 10:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 11:00:27 / November 19, 2017 @ 11:00 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000bvgl. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvgl. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.978 East, latitude -21.705 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
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). Epicenter of the event was 20 km (12 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and four, in the past 30 days one hundred and seventy-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 19 km SSE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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