A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 168.8158° East, latitude -21.6234° South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000bu1a. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000bu1a. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/11/17 / 2017-11-16 16:51:18 / November 16, 2017 @ 4:51 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:51:18 / 3:51 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop). The epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each 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: 96 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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