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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.4112S, 168.6138WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 03:07:08 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.6138° East, -21.4112° South. Event id: us2000bvhn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvhn. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 16:07:08 / November 19, 2017 @ 4:07 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 77 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6138° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.4112° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km ENE 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 2017-11-19 16:07:08 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-03 21:37:22 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 432 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 0.547 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 us2000bvhn Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvhn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvhn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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