A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Tadine in New Caledonia. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 168.5688 East, latitude -21.5236 South, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/11/17 / 2017-11-23 05:26:04 / November 23, 2017 @ 5:26 am. The temblor was picked up at 16:26:04 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us1000bjt6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000bjt6.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tadine (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, New Caledonia (c. 216 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 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 twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and seventy-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. 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: 71 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia.
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