A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Monday. The temblor was detected at 03:11:34 / 3:11 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 168.6783° East, latitude -21.2565° South, depth = 14.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bvid. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvid. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 16:11:34 / November 19, 2017 @ 4:11 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.03 km (9 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine. The 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 eighty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 88 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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