A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact location, longitude 168.7144° East, latitude -21.7292° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bvgm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvgm. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 11:41:50 / November 19, 2017 @ 11:41 am. The temblor was reported at 22:41:50 / 10:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and in the last 365 days two hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 88 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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