A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Monday. Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 02:04:22 / November 20, 2017 @ 2:04 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 13:04:22 / 1:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvx3. Id of event: us2000bvx3. Exact location of event, longitude 168.7321 East, latitude -21.4316 South, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventeen, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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