A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.694° East, -21.1327° South. Unique identifier: us1000bjd0. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bjd0. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:17:29 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/17 / 2017-11-21 12:17:29 / November 21, 2017 @ 12:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 96 km (60 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days ninety-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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