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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Tadine in New Caledonia

Posted by admin on December 14, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -21.4898S, 168.4743WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.4743 East, latitude -21.4898 South, depth = 17.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us2000bu1w. Event ids that are associated: us2000bu1w. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/11/17 / 2017-11-16 15:11:30 / November 16, 2017 @ 3:11 pm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:11:30 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.9 km (11 miles).

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. Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Tadine (c. 7 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 61 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.4743° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.4898° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km E 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 2017-11-16 15:11:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-14 21:05:05 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 298 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 0.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 167 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 us2000bu1w Id of event.
Event Code 2000bu1w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bu1w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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