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


Earthquake location -21.3524S, 168.7964WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 97 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia (60 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:26:01 / 4:26 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/11/17 / 2017-11-20 17:26:01 / November 20, 2017 @ 5:26 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 168.7964° East, latitude -21.3524° South, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bvyj. Unique identifier: us2000bvyj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 168.7964° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.3524° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97km 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 2017-11-20 17:26:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-12-19 16:51:26 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 0.725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 244 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 us2000bvyj Id of event.
Event Code 2000bvyj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000bvyj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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