A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia on Monday. Exact location, longitude 168.6147° East, latitude -21.3801° South, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 16:50:04 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 05:50:04 / November 20, 2017 @ 5:50 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bvxj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bvxj.
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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (48 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 78 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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