A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvxi. Unique identifier: us2000bvxi. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 168.6915° East, -21.3743° South. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 05:59:15 / November 20, 2017 @ 5:59 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:59:15 / 4:59 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Close 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.
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy 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.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 85 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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