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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 51 km NNE of Tadine, New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.1061S, 168.0336WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/17 / 2017-11-24 22:47:08 / November 24, 2017 @ 10:47 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.0336° East, -21.1061° South. The temblor was reported at 09:47:08 / 9:47 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bjwl. Unique identifier: us1000bjwl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wé, Tadine (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 83 km (51 miles) from Wé (c. 10 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 51 km NNE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.0336° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.1061° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NNE of Tadine, 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 2017-11-24 22:47:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-03 01:52:45 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 284 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 0.373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 us1000bjwl Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjwl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjwl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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