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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.486S, 168.528WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The temblor was reported at 02:52:09 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.49 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 13.49 km, 168.528° East, -21.486° South. Unique identifier: us2000bvyb. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvyb. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 15:52:09 / November 20, 2017 @ 3:52 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine. Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 seventy-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 67 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.528° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.486° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km E 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 2017-11-20 15:52:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-06 14:38:51 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 298 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 0.463 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 124 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 us2000bvyb Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvyb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvyb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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