A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Tuesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.4854 East, latitude -21.3074 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000bjcn. Unique identifier: us1000bjcn. The temblor was reported at 18:44:58 / 6:44 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/11/17 / 2017-11-21 07:44:58 / November 21, 2017 @ 7:44 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine. Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and five and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 67 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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