A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia kilometers (0 miles) from Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. The temblor was detected at 13:50:27 / 1:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 168.7686 East, latitude -21.7498 South, depth = 4.28 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 13:50:27 / November 20, 2017 @ 1:50 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.28 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvy4. Unique identifier: us2000bvy4.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 94 km (59 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-two 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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