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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.6433S, 168.5645WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Monday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:51:09 / 3:51 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.05 km (9 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 16:51:09 / November 19, 2017 @ 4:51 pm. Exact location, longitude 168.5645° East, latitude -21.6433° South, depth = 15.05 km. Event id: us2000bvh9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvh9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine. Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

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

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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 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: 71 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.5645° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.6433° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km E 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 16:51:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-04 15:47:33 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 271 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 0.522 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us2000bvh9 Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvh9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvh9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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