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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on December 10, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.0999S, 167.9847WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The temblor was reported at 01:26:21 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/17 / 2017-11-21 14:26:21 / November 21, 2017 @ 2:26 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.9847 East, latitude -21.0999 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us1000bjd5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bjd5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Wé, Tadine. The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Wé (c. 10 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 50 km NNE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.9847° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.0999° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km NNE 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 2017-11-21 14:26:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-10 18:19:16 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 326 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 0.381 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 257 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 us1000bjd5 Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjd5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjd5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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