A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000bscc. Event ids that are associated: us2000bscc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/11/17 / 2017-11-12 00:16:17 / November 12, 2017 @ 12:16 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.56 km (8 miles). Exact location, longitude 168.6301° East, latitude -21.5935° South, depth = 12.56 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:16:17 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine.
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty-five, in the last 10 days two hundred, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 77 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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