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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on December 6, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.7406S, 168.6498WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Thursday. The temblor was detected at 19:07:53 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000bu0j. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bu0j. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/17 / 2017-11-16 08:07:53 / November 16, 2017 @ 8:07 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 168.6498° East, latitude -21.7406° South, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 82 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.6498° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.7406° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km ESE 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 2017-11-16 08:07:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-06 13:07:50 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 0.631 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 133 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 us2000bu0j Id of event.
Event Code 2000bu0j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bu0j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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