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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on December 13, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.2861S, 169.0417WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 123 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia (76 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/17 / 2017-11-22 22:39:32 / November 22, 2017 @ 10:39 pm. Unique identifier: us1000bjgv. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000bjgv. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.87 km (9 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 169.0417° East, -21.2861° South, depth 14.87 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:39:32 / 9:39 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 123 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.0417° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.2861° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123km ENE 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 2017-11-22 22:39:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-13 23:22:58 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 284 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 0.962 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 239 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 us1000bjgv Id of event.
Event Code 1000bjgv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000bjgv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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