A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 168.5807 East, latitude -21.4228 South, depth = 10 km. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:49:05 / 2:49 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 15:49:05 / November 20, 2017 @ 3:49 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvyc. Unique identifier: us2000bvyc.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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 react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 73 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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