A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact location of event, longitude 168.7632 East, latitude -21.2298 South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:53:26 / 10:53 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/17 / 2017-11-19 23:53:26 / November 19, 2017 @ 11:53 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvi9. Id of event: us2000bvi9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 97 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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